honeycreeper

[ huhn-ee-kree-per ]

/ ˈhʌn iˌkri pər /

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noun

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

Hawaiian honeycreeper.

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Origin of honeycreeper

First recorded in 1880–85; honey + creeper

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How to use honeycreeper in a sentence

In and out, in and out, and among the bushes where the honey-creeper hung, he went looking for her.
The Story of an African Farm|(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner

British Dictionary definitions for honeycreeper

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

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