Definitions

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Meliphagidae.

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Examples

  • It shares Wahnes's parotia (Parotia wahnesi) and the olive-streaked honeyeater (Ptiloprora guisei) with the mountains of the Huon Peninsula, but the fire-maned bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) is found nowhere else on Earth but this ecoregion.

    Northern New Guinea montane rain forests 2008

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