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rara avis noun [ ˌrɛːrə ˈeɪvɪs ]

• another term for rare bird.
Similar: rarity, rare person/thing, rare bird, wonder, marvel, nonpareil, nonesuch, one of a kind, find, anomaly, curiosity, oddity, aberration, freak, outlier, edge case, one-off, oner,
Origin: Latin, with reference to Juvenal's Satires, vi.165.


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