honeycreeper
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any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, of tropical and semitropical America.
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Origin of honeycreeper
Example Sentences
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The ʻakikiki, a honeycreeper native to Kauaʻi, is now considered extinct in the wild largely because of the disease.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
The bird Dr. Spencer saw in Colombia is only the second known case of bilateral gynandromorphism in a green honeycreeper — and the first documented in the wild.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024
Figure 18.15 The honeycreeper birds illustrate adaptive radiation.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The campaign to save one bird, the po’ouli, a honeycreeper so unique it has its own genus, came too late.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021
A honeycreeper sang from the bushes outside the window.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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