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Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
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honeysucker
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Honeysucker may refer to: Honeyeater , a bird Honeysucker (truck), a vacuum truck used to empty septic tanks and latrines
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A honeyeater. n. A honeyeater.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar [syn: honey eater ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
honey eater \honey eater\, honey-eater \honey-eater\n. One of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagid[ae] having tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar, abundant in Australia and Oceania; -- called also honeysucker . Syn: ...
Usage examples of honeysucker.
There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.
I understand that Moahu is no great way from Hawaii, which is known to possess a wide variety of honeysuckers and even a gallinule with a scarlet forehead.