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Small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands
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honeycreeper
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
thumb|right|250px|Males of typical honeycreepers (like this purple honeycreeper ) are blue and black. Honeycreeper is a term for several sorts of songbirds: The "true honeycreepers" are three genera in the tanager family. Cyanerpes , four species of typical ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands [syn: Hawaiian honeycreeper ] small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various nectar-feeding birds of the tanager family, belonging to the genera ''Cyanerpes'', ''Chlorophanes'', and ''Iridophanes''. 2 Also applied to the Hawaiian honeycreepers, passerine songbirds of Hawaii.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
honeycreeper \honeycreeper\, honey creeper \honey creeper\n. Any of a number of small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands belonging to the subfamily Drepanidae . Syn: Hawaiian honeycreeper. any of numerous species of small, bright, colored, ...
Usage examples of honeycreeper.
The greater koa finch, an innocuous member of the honeycreeper family, lurked shyly in the canopies of koa trees, but if someone imitated its song it would abandon its cover at once and fly down in a show of welcome.
If it was anything less important, the chatty child was invited to go talk to the honeycreepers flitting brightly through the trees five thousand feet up the lava slopes.