Definitions
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 -feedingbirds of thetanager family, belonging to thegenera Cyanerpes ,Chlorophanes , andIridophanes . - noun Also applied to the Hawaiian honeycreepers,
passerine songbirds ofHawaii .
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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Examples
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The term "honeycreeper" was originally associated with two groups of birds, once thought to be related: the Hawaiian Honeycreepers (Drepanidinae) and the Neotropical honeycreepers (Coerebidae).
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Because this fire now threatens a relatively pristine native rain forest that is home to Hawaii's famous happyface spiders and honeycreeper songbirds, Park officials are quite rightly doing everything they can to stop it.
Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World Robert J. Cabin 2011
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For instance, over 40 species of exquisite honeycreeper songbirds ultimately evolved from a single finch-like ancestor.
Robert J. Cabin: World's Most Unique and Endangered Forest Needs Our Help Robert J. Cabin 2011
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For instance, over 40 species of exquisite honeycreeper songbirds ultimately evolved from a single finch-like ancestor.
Robert J. Cabin: World's Most Unique and Endangered Forest Needs Our Help Robert J. Cabin 2011
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Because this fire now threatens a relatively pristine native rain forest that is home to Hawaii's famous happyface spiders and honeycreeper songbirds, Park officials are quite rightly doing everything they can to stop it.
Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World Robert J. Cabin 2011
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One such is the po'ouli bird, a species of honeycreeper that lived in Hawaii and was only discovered in 1973.
The Frozen Zoo aiming to bring endangered species back from the brink 2010
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Several species, including the crested honeycreeper and ou, are near extinction.
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One hot spot: Hawaii, where nonnative species have killed off some 100 plants, and the honeycreeper, a jungle bird, is down to single digits.
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ENVIRONMENTCritical ListThe snail darter had its 15 minutes; now the honeycreeper is ready for its close-up.
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Whatever we may call the sympathy that involves us with the fate of victims in war zones half a world away, the sonar torture of whales, the mutilation of women and the tortures of bears in Pakistan, or the last members of a species of rainforest honeycreeper, this regard for life apart from our own is something that, so far as I know, is unique to our species.
Archive 2007-05-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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