honeycreeper

[huhn-ee-kree-per]

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

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