honeycreeper [huhn-ee-kree-per] Word Origin noun
- any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
- Hawaiian honeycreeper.
Origin of honeycreeper First recorded in 1880–85; honey + creeper British Dictionary definitions for honey creeper honey creeper noun
- 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
- any bird of the family Drepanididae of Hawaii