Solitaire Definition–noun | 1. | Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner. | | 2. | a game played by one person alone, as a game played with marbles or pegs on a board having hollows or holes. | | 3. | a precious stone, esp. a diamond, set by itself, as in a ring. | | 4. | any of several American thrushes of the genus Myadestes, having short, broad bills and noted for their beautiful songs. | | 5. | a large extinct flightless bird of the
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genus Pezophaps, related to the dodo but with a longer neck, smaller bill, and longer legs, that inhabited the Mascarene Islands. | |
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Related topics from Britannicasolitaire
family of card games played by one person. Solitaire was originally called (in various spellings) either patience, as it still is in England, Poland, and Germany, or cabale, as it still is in ...
solitaire
either of two species of extinct flightless birds related to the dodo (q.v.).dodo
extinct flightless bird of Mauritius (an island of the Indian Ocean), one of the three species that constituted the family Raphidae, usually placed with pigeons in the order Columbiformes but ...
columbiform
By the time they appear in the fossil record, the Columbiformes are already so well differentiated that their phylogenetic relations cannot be determined with certainty. The sandgrouse and pigeons ...
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columbiform
any member of the group of birds that contains the pigeons, doves, dodoes, and solitaires. The order Columbiformes is divided into the Raphidae, a family of extinct birds that embraces the dodo and ...
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The subordinal limits of the Columbiformes seem to be well defined. The pigeons and doves make up a natural group, and early 21st-century DNA analysis supports the close relationship of dodoes and ...
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