Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird that sucks the sweets of flowers; a honey-eater or honey-bird; a nectar-bird: specifically applied to the Meliphagidœ, and less technically to sundry other small, chiefly slender-billed, birds, as the Nectariniidœ, Cœrelridœ, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
honey eater .
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- noun A
honeyeater .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mimeta is figured and described as a honeysucker in the costly "Voyage de l'Astrolabe," under the name of Philedon bouruensis!
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The oriole resembles the honeysucker in the following particulars: the upper and under surfaces of the two birds are exactly of the same tints of dark and light brown; the
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Morty island has a peculiar kingfisher, honeysucker, and starling;
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One of these is a honeysucker named Tropidorhynchus bouruensis, and the other a kind of oriole, which has been called Mimeta bouruensis.
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The other sunbird commonly seen in hill-gardens is one appropriately named the tiny sun bird or honeysucker (_Arachnecthra minima_), being less than two-thirds the size of a sparrow.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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It was not more than four feet above her head, but she lay so still and motionless that a jewelled honeysucker came and hovered over the flowers, darting from one to another like a many-coloured flash.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Thus Morty island has a peculiar kingfisher, honeysucker, and starling; Ternate has a ground-thrush (Pitta) and
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The oriole resembles the honeysucker in the following particulars: the upper and under surfaces of the two birds are exactly of the same tints of dark and light brown; the
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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One of these is a honeysucker named Tropidorhynchus bouruensis, and the other a kind of oriole, which has been called Mimeta bouruensis.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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"During the river voyage we saw now and then single green-coloured kingfishers flying about, and a honeysucker or two, but they were not nearly so numerous as might have been expected in this purely tropical zone.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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