sugar bird

British  

noun

1. a South African nectar-eating bird, Promerops cafer, with a long curved bill and long tail: family Meliphagidae (honey-eaters)

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Example Sentences

"My dear Miss Blye!"—wouldn't that put pink icing and a little red sugar bird on your bridal cake?

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.

Among these are the mocking bird, the wild canary, the sugar bird, the thrush, the humming bird, the owl, the hawk, the dove, the cuckoo, the oriole, the nightingale, and the Guinea bird.

From Little Journey to Puerto Rico For Intermediate and Upper Grades by George, Marian Minnie

The greater number of birds belong to the order Passeres; starlings, weavers and larks are very common, the Cape canary, long-tailed sugar bird, pipits and wagtails are fairly numerous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various