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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
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
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ The typical honeycreeper is a small bird in the tanager family. They are found in the tropical New World from Mexico south to Brazil.
They occur in the forest canopy, and, as the name implies, they are specialist nectar feeders with long curved bills.
The four Cyanerpes species have colourful legs, long wings and a short tail. The males are typically glossy purple-blue and the females greenish.
The green honeycreeper is called a honeycreeper, but belongs to the monotypic Chlorophanes genus. It has a larger, stouter beak than the Cyanerpes group, and is less heavily dependent on nectar. The golden-collared honeycreeper, is also a honeycreeper, but is monotypic in the genus Iridophanes.
Honeycreeper is an album by Japanese pop band PUFFY that was released on September 26, 2007 in Japan. The album is notable for being the first Puffy album where "band Godfather", Andy Sturmer, is not credited for writing any of the songs.
"Hasan Jauze" is a cover of a song by The Cro-Magnons, which was released within two weeks' time of the original.
Current pressings of the album now have the cover that is used as the first pressing's tray liner picture. The first pressings of the album also had extra pages in the CD jacket booklet as well as differences in photo/lyric set-outs.
Puffy have said in an interview that inspiration for the album's title name, 'Honeycreeper', came from a leaflet they had come across while on a vacation in Hawaii, and that it was the name for a type of bird, similar to the ones seen on the album's cover.
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 honeycreepers
- Chlorophanes, the green honeycreeper
- Iridophanes, the golden-collared honeycreeper
- Hawaiian honeycreepers, a group of birds in the finch family
Honeycreeper may also refer to:
- Honeycreeper (album), an album by Japanese pop band Puffy AmiYumi
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.