Mina

noun

1. A varying unit of weight or money used in ancient Greece and Asia.
2. One of several different sturnoid passerine birds of India and countries further east.
3. 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.
4. A unit of weight and of value, originally Assyrian, but used also by the Greeks and other ancient peoples.
5. See myna.