Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American honey-creeper or guitguit of the family Cærebidæ.
- noun Some bird of the family Dicæidæ.
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Examples
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Among these was a pretty little flower-pecker of a new species
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The fire-breasted flower-pecker (_Dicæum ignipectus_) is perhaps the smallest bird in India.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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They are known as the Nilgiri flower-pecker (_Dicæum concolor_) and
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Between five and six hundred species are represented, varying from the great vulture known as the lammergeyer, which is 9 1/2 feet across the outstretched wing, down to the tiny flower-pecker, barely exceeding 3 inches from the end of its beak to the tip of its tail.
The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902
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Among these was a pretty little flower-pecker of a new species
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 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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