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Manx   /mæŋks/   Listen
Manx

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants or their language.  "There are few Manx speakers alive today"



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Manx shearwater


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"Manx" Quotes from Famous Books



... Caine was born on the Isle of Man, of Manx and Cambrian parentage. He began his career as an architect in Liverpool, and made frequent contributions to the Builder and Building News. Acquiring a taste for literary work, he secured an engagement on the Liverpool Mercury, and shortly afterward formed an intimate friendship with Dante Gabriel ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
... SHEARWATER. Puffinus anglorum, Temminck. French, "Petrel Manks."—The Manx Shearwater can only be considered as an occasional wanderer to the Channel Islands, and never by any means so common as it is sometimes on the opposite side of the Channel about Torbay, especially in the early autumn. ...
— Birds of Guernsey (1879) • Cecil Smith
... Count Lyof N. Tolstoi The Nightingale Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen How the Wren Became King Adapted from a Manx Folk Tale ...
— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey


Words linked to "Manx" :   Felis catus, man, Erse, Gaelic, Felis domesticus, domestic cat, Goidelic, Manx shearwater, house cat


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