monjita
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish monjita (“little nun”).
Noun[edit]
monjita (plural monjitas)
- Any of several birds in the genus Xolmis in the tyrant flycatcher family.
Further reading[edit]
Xolmis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Xolmis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Xolmis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
monjita f (plural monjitas)
- Diminutive of monja
- 2015 September 19, “Amenábar competente, no excepcional”, in El País[1]:
- Es lo que me hacen sentir esos cinco curas pedófilos (y vete a saber que otras impunes aficiones practicaban), la sinuosa y cínica monjita que les cuida y una de sus antiguas víctimas, todos recluidos por la Santa Madre Iglesia en una casa junto al mar para que expíen sus viejos pecados.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- monjita (bird)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “monjita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:Tyrant flycatchers
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- es:Tyrant flycatchers