akiapolaau

[ah-kee-ah-poh-lah-ou]

noun

a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill.

Origin of akiapolaau

From the Hawaiian word ʿakiapolaʿau

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