Crossword clues for honey-eater
honey-eater
The Collaborative International Dictionary
honey-eater
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: honeysucker.
Usage examples of "honey-eater".
The wonga pigeon and the little brown fantail and the woodpeckers and the honey-eaters and the diamond sparrows and white-eyes and silver-eyes all had paused to watch him go by.
Struck with bewilderment, the honey-eaters became dumb, the dismayed doves forgot to coo, the scrub-fowl ceased their chuckling, and three cockatoos flew from the blue-fruited quandong-tree shrieking abominable sarcasms.