honeycreeper









honeycreeper


honeycreeper [huhn-ee-kree-per] Word Origin noun

  1. any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
  2. Hawaiian honeycreeper.

Origin of honeycreeper First recorded in 1880–85; honey + creeper British Dictionary definitions for honey creeper honey creeper noun

  1. any small tropical American songbird of the genus Dacnis and related genera, closely related to the tanagers and buntings, having a slender downward-curving bill and feeding on nectar
  2. any bird of the family Drepanididae of Hawaii
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