Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly tropical Old World birds of the family Meropidae that have brightly colored plumage and feed on bees and wasps.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which eats bees, as a bird; an apiaster. Specifically— The European Merops apiaster.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various brightly-coloured, insectivorous, near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae, especially the European bee-eater, Merops apiaster.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds especially on bees. The European species (Merops apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.
- n. An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. colorful chiefly tropical Old World bird having a strong graceful flight; feeds on especially bees
Etymologies
- From the diet of these birds, which consists of flying insects, especially bees and wasps. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Here is a video of a blue-bearded bee-eater sitting in a tree in dense forest, looking alert, but it is not doing much else filmed in India: You are invited to review all of the daily mystery birds by going to their dedicated graphic index page.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni
“Although mainly foraging using aerial sallies, the blue-bearded bee-eater also gleans insects from tree bark.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni
“The blue-bearded bee-eater exploits the defensive behavior exhibited by giant honey bees, Apis dorsata, by deliberately provoking guard bees to defend their nest.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni
“Response: This is an adult blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni
“Blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni formerly, Alcemerops athertonii; protonym, Merops athertoni also sometimes known as the blue-necked bee-eater, photographed in Thailand.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni
“Mystery bird: Blue-cheeked bee-eater, Merops persicus”
“Several species of bee-eater and kingfisher are present along the rivers.”
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
“Above it were the roller and bee-eater and hoopoe, all fabulously Mediterranean with hot aureate colors that were not, even in the late 1960s, permitted in Britain yet, except under license to the kingfisher.”
“Blue-tailed bee-eater ( '' Merops Philippinus '') (Photograph by Rahula Perera)”
“A high rate of endemics, such as the purple-bearded bee-eater, with green wings and a purple chest, which is found only on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bee-eater’.
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
AA battery, aa lava, aapa mire, abandon the project, abandon the sewer..., abandoned car, abandoned dyke, abandoned farm, abandoned field, abandoned industr..., abandoned industr..., abandoned land and 5386 more...
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Specifically
Being a list of words which have "specifically" in their definitions.
recompose, specifically, Dutch, abstinence, discipline, virtue, namely, opening, century, amalgamation, cup, second and 303 more...
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The Bee List
Some words pilfered shamelessly from ruzuzu's https://www.wordnik.com/lists/bees.
spelling bee, beehive, bee-stung, beeswax, none of your beeswax, bee’s knees, bee in one's bonnet, beeline, beekeeper, beekeeping, bee-hunter, honeybee and 36 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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