HONEYCREEPER

Meaning of HONEYCREEPER in English

■ noun

1》 a tropical American tanager with a long curved bill, feeding on nectar and insects. [Genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes .]

2》 a Hawaiian songbird, several kinds of which are endangered. [Family Drepanididae: several species.]

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

HONEYCREEPER — noun Date: 1872 any of numerous small bright-colored oscine birds (especially genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes of the family Coerebidae) of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HONEYCREEPER — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : any of numerous small bright-colored oscine birds constituting the family Coerebidae found in tropical and subtropical America …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HONEYCREEPER — /hun"ee kree'peuhr/ , n. 1. any of several small, usually brightly colored birds, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HONEYCREEPER — noun Date: 1872 1. : any of numerous small bright-colored oscine birds (especially genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes of the family …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HONEYCREEPER — [hon.ey.creep.er] n (1872) 1: any of numerous small bright-colored oscine birds (esp. genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes of the family Coerebidae) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HONEYCREEPER — any of the tropical American birds of the subfamily Coerebinae, family Emberizidae. Birds of the Hawaiian honeycreeper (q.v.) group constitute …
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HONEYCREEPER — орнит. 1) танагра-медосос (Cyanerpes) 2) крючкоклюв (Diglossa) 3) pl танагровые (Thraupidae) • - black honeycreeper - crested honeycreeper - Hawaiian honeycreepers - shining honeycreeper
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
HONEYCREEPER — орнит. 1) танагра-медосос ( Cyanerpes ) 2) крючкоклюв ( Diglossa ) 3) pl танагровые ( Thraupidae ) • - black …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
HONEYCREEPER — n. Pronunciation: ' h ə -n ē - ˌ kr ē -p ə r Function: noun Date: 1872 1 : …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER — any small to medium-sized finches of the subfamily Drepanidinae, native to the Hawaiian Islands and including many rare and extinct …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER — any of 23 species of birds found only in the forests of the Hawaiian Islands. They constitute the family Drepanididae, …
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PALILA — pəˈlēlə noun ( -s ) Etymology: Hawaiian : a Hawaiian honeycreeper ( Psittirostra bailleui ) that resembles a finch
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ORANGE QUIT — noun : a Jamaican honeycreeper ( Glossiptila ruficollis )
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IIWI — ēˈēwē noun ( -s ) Etymology: Hawaiian 'i'iwi : an Hawaiian honeycreeper ( Vestiaria coccinea ) with chiefly bright vermilion …
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HONEY EATER — noun : any of several oscine birds that constitute the family Meliphagidae, are found mostly in the south Pacific, and …
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DREPANID — -_nə̇d noun ( -s ) Etymology: irregular from New Latin Drepanididae : a bird of the family Drepanididae : a …
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PALILA — /peuh lee"leuh/ , n. a stout Hawaiian honeycreeper, Loxioides bailleui, having a thick, stubby bill, yellow head and breast, and …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OU — /oh"ooh"/ , n. a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
IIWI — /ee ee"wee/ , n. a Hawaiian honeycreeper, Vestiaria coccinea, having a red body, black wings, and a deeply curved pinkish-red …
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APAPANE — /ah'pah pah"nay/ , n. a small, deep crimson Hawaiian honeycreeper, Himatione sanguinea, having black wings, tail, and bill. [ 'apapane …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ANIANIAU — /ah'nee ah'nee ow"/ , n. a small Hawaiian honeycreeper, Loxops parva, occurring in the high forests of Kauai. Also called …
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AMAKIHI — /ah'mah kee"hee/ , n. , pl. amakihis . a small Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus virens, having mainly olive-green plumage above with …
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AKIAPOLAAU — /ah kee'ah poh'lah ow"/ , n. a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OU — ~ 1 [ əʊ ] ■ n~n ( plural ~ens 'əʊənz or ~s ) S. African informal a man. Origin …
Concise Oxford English vocab
IIWI — (species Vestiaria coccinea), Hawaiian songbird, one of the commoner members of the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, Drepanididae, order Passeriformes. A nectar-feeder, …
Britannica English vocabulary
APAPANE — (Himatione sanguinea), Hawaiian songbird, common on larger islands, a nectar-feeding member of the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, Drepanididae (order Passeriformes). About …
Britannica English vocabulary
AMAKIHI — (Loxops virens), perhaps the most common native songbird in Hawaii, a member of the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, Drepanididae (order Passeriformes). …
Britannica English vocabulary
EMBERIZIDAE — songbird family in the classification preferred by some authorities, absorbing some groups otherwise placed in the Fringillidae (q.v.), order Passeriformes. …
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IRIDOPHANES PULCHERRIMA — golden-collared honeycreeper
Animal names in Latin and English vocab
HIMATIONE SANGUINEA FREETHII — Laysan honeycreeper
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