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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various small, often brightly colored tropical American birds of the family Thraupidae, having a curved bill used for sucking nectar from flowers.
  • noun Any of various finches found only in Hawaii, some of which feed on nectar and have curved bills similar to those of the mainland honeycreepers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any bird of the American family Cœrebidœ or Dacnididœ; a guitguit. The species are quite numerous; one, Certhiola bahamensis, occurs in the United States. See cut under Cœrebinœ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any of a number of small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands belonging to the subfamily Drepanidae.
  • noun any of numerous species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family Cœrebidæ, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, abundant in Central and South America; they are songbirds with a curved bill for sucking nectar.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of various nectar-feeding birds of the tanager family, belonging to the genera Cyanerpes, Chlorophanes, and Iridophanes.
  • noun Also applied to the Hawaiian honeycreepers, passerine songbirds of Hawaii.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands
  • noun small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar

Etymologies

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honey + creeper

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