The Collaborative International Dictionary
honey creeper
honeycreeper \honeycreeper\, honey creeper \honey creeper\n.
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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, passerine birds of the family C[oe]rebid[ae], related to the tanagers and wood warblers, abundant in Central and South America; they are songbirds with a curved bill for sucking nectar.