Nonpareil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having no equal; peerless: the Yankees' nonpareil center fielder.
  • n. A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
  • n. See painted bunting.
  • n. A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
  • n. A small pellet of colored sugar used as decoration on baked goods and candy.
  • n. A small, flat chocolate drop covered with white pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
  • n. (printing) A type size; nonpareille.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Something of unequaled excellence; a peerless thing or person; a nonesuch; -- often used as a name.
  • n. A size of type next smaller than minion and next larger than agate (or ruby).
  • n.
  • n. A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted bunting and painted finch.
  • n. Any other similar bird of the same genus.
  • n. A small sphere, less than 1 mm diamter, of colored sugar, used to decorate confections; -- usually used in the plural as though the name of a substance.
  • n. A type of candy chocolate consisting of a small flat disk of chocolate, less than one inch diameter, having nonpareils{4} sprinkled on the top.
  • adj. Having no equal; peerless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having no equal; peerless.
  • n. A person or thing of peerless excellence; a nonesuch; something regarded as unique in its kind.
  • n. Specifically— In ornithology:
  • n. The pointed finch or painted bunting, Passerina or Cyanospiza ciris: so called from its beauty. The top and sides of the head and neck are rich-blue, the back golden-green, the rump and under parts vermilion-red. The female is greenish above, yellowish below. The bird is about 5½ inches long, and common in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, especially Louisiana, where it is sometimes called pape or pope. It is a near relative of the indigo-bird and the lazuli-finch. Also called incomparable.
  • n. The rose- or rosella-parrakeet, Platycercus eximius: so called from its beauty. See cut under rosella.
  • n. In conchology, a gastropod of the genus Clausilia.
  • n. In printing, a size of type, forming about 12 lines to the inch. In the American system of sizes it is intermediate between minion (larger) and agate (smaller); in the English system it is between the sizes emerald (larger) and ruby (smaller). (The type of this paragraph is nonpareil.)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
  • n. colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
  • n. a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
  • adj. eminent beyond or above comparison
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