pope → <bird> 5 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme pope
Meaning 1 honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state
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Meaning 2 (Cumberland, Cornwall, Devon, Scotland) Atlantic puffin Alca genus; 6 species, including the razorbill, the penguin, the pope, and others. (1759, "Linnæus's Systema Naturæ", The Gentleman's Magazine, page 456); The Pope: This is a very singular bird; it is about the size of our widgeon, or somewhat larger, but is not quite so large as the duck: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are small, and stand forward on the head, and lower down than in the generality of birds [...] (1773, John Hill, "Alca", A General Natural History, volume 3, page 442); "About a hundred yards further North" says Troutbeck, "is a 'subterraneous' cavern called the Pope's Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water."!! [...] It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins, vulgo "popes" (1822, George Woodley, A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands, page 264-5); The Norsemen catch great numbers of these popes, parrots, or lunder, as they are variously named, and train dogs to go into the holes where the puffin has its nest, lying in it with feet in the air (1864, Charles Issac Elton, Norway: The Road and the Fell, page 94); I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called "popes") (1874, J. Van Voorst, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 3904)
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ACCEPTED Realization 2
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme pope
Meaning 1 honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state
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Meaning 2 (US regional) painted bunting The Pope is of a bright blue round the head; on the throat it is of a fine red, and on the back of a gold green colour, it sings very finely and is the size of a canary bird. (1771, M. Bossu, Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana, volume 1, page 371); The birds [of Louisiana] are the partridge, cardinal and pope, and a species of mocking bird, called the nightingale (1806, Berquin-Duvallon, Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the Year, 1802: Giving a Correct Picture of Those Countries, page 122); [...] some others, such as the crow, the heron, and the wild goose, which are found in Europe, I also observed ; but the most beautiful are the pope bird, whose head seems bound with the most bright azure blue, and the cardinal, being entirely of dazzling scarlet [...] (1821 Édouard de Montulé, A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817, page 54)
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ACCEPTED Realization 3
Type Polysemy
Language English
Lexeme pope
Meaning 1 honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state
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Meaning 2 (rare) bird Paroaria dominicana From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being the Pope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one (1864 August 6, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman, page 100); The Pope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate (1883, William Thomas Greene, The amateur's aviary of foreign birds: or, How to keep and breed foreign birds, page 96); SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treat Pope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting (1895, A. A. Thom, "Dominican cardinals" in The Avicultural Magazine, page 128); Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair of Popes. These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature (1898, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 4, page 87); The wisest plan is always to keep the Pope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary (1956, Foreign birds for cage and aviary, Volume 4, page 20).
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ACCEPTED Realization 4
Type Polysemy
Language French
Lexeme pape
Meaning 1 pope
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Meaning 2 some species of small birds with red and purplish plumage, in Carolina, New Caledonia and Canada of several genera of the order Passeriformes
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Comment pape des bambous — Erythrura hyperythra; pape à face noire — Erythrura kleinschmidti; pape indigo — Passerina cyanea; pape de Kittlitz — Erythrura trichroa; pape lazuli — Passerina amoena; pape de Leclancher — Passerina leclancherii; pape de Louisiane — Passerina ciris; pape de Manille — Erythrura viridifacies; pape de Mindanao — Erythrura coloria; pape multicolore — Passerina versicolor; pape de Nouméa — Erythrura psittacea; pape de Papouasie — Erythrura papuana; pape de Peale — Erythrura pealii; pape des prairies or pape quadricolore — Erythrura prasina; pape royal or pape de Samoa — Erythrura cyaneovirens; pape versicolore — Passerina versicolor
ACCEPTED Realization 5
Type Polysemy
Language French
Lexeme pape
Meaning 1 pope
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Meaning 2 king vupture (Sarcoramphus papa)
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Comment Also Vautour pape. The king vulture was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae as Vultur papa, the type specimen originally collected in Suriname. The species name is derived from Latin word papa 'bishop', alluding the bird's plumage resembling the clothing of one.

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