mina

A varying unit of weight or money used in ancient Greece and Asia.

One of several different sturnoid passerine birds of India and countries further east.

A unit of weight and of value, originally Assyrian, but used also by the Greeks and other ancient peoples.

A genus of plants of the family Convolvulaceæ, closely related to Ipomœa and Quamoclit. Mina lobata of the gardens, a native of Mexico, is a twining herb with cordate 3-lobed leaves and small flowers in scorpioid clusters, the bag-shaped corolla of which is a rich crimson when it first opens, but changes to yellow.

An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

See myna.

The myna bird.

tropical Asian starlings