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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An extensive genus of Indian and East Indian tenuirostral passerine birds, of the family Nectariniidæ and subfamily Drepaninæ a group of small sun-birds, having a slender, acute, arcuate bill, the tarsi short, and the plumage more or less red.

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