honeycreeper

2 definitions found

honeycreeper - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  honeycreeper \honeycreeper\, honey creeper \honey creeper\n.
     1. Any of a number of small to medium-sized finches of the
        Hawaiian islands belonging to the subfamily Drepanidae.
  
     Syn: Hawaiian honeycreeper.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. any of numerous species of small, bright, colored,
        passerine birds of the family C[oe]rebid[ae], related to
        the tanagers and wood warblers, abundant in Central and
        South America; they are songbirds with a curved bill for
        sucking nectar.
        [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

honeycreeper - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  honeycreeper
      n 1: small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands [syn:
           honeycreeper, Hawaiian honeycreeper]
      2: small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved
         bill for sucking nectar