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apapane

Or 'a·pa·pa·ne

[ah-pah-pah-ney]

noun

  1. a small, deep crimson Hawaiian honeycreeper, Himatione sanguinea, having black wings, tail, and bill.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of apapane1

First recorded in 1830–40; from Hawaiian ʿapapane
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Example Sentences

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Some bird populations on the Big Island, including the apapane and amakihi, have shown signs of resistance to disease.

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He produced a photo of a brilliant red bird — an apapane — and asked if anyone knew its name.

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The forest they were in was a quilt, he explained, stitched together by honeycreepers like the apapane and iiwi as they drank nectar and scattered seeds.

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Immediately, we hear the songs of native apapane, amakihi and i’iwi.

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A rat destroying an apapane nest in a hapu’u, a native tree fern, about 10 feet up.

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