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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of honey-birds, of the family Meliphagidæ and subfamily Meliphaginæ, based upon the mottled honey-eater or brush wattle-bird of Australia (A. carunculata or A. mellivora), described as specially fond of the banksias, upon the blossoms of which it feeds.

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