- honey eater
- nounAustralasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar• Syn: ↑honeysucker• Hypernyms: ↑oscine, ↑oscine bird• Member Holonyms: ↑Meliphagidae, ↑family Meliphagidae
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noun: any of several oscine birds that constitute the family Meliphagidae, are found mostly in the south Pacific, and have a long protrusible tongue adapted for extracting nectar and small insects from flowers — called also honeysucker; see bellbird, flying coachman, friarbird, stitchbird, wattlebird; compare honeycreeper* * *
any of numerous oscine birds of the family Meliphagidae, chiefly of Australasia, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the nectar from flowers.Also, honeyeater.[1725-35]* * *
honey eater or hon|ey|eat|er «HUHN ee EE tuhr», noun.any one of a large family of Australasian oscine birds, including the wattlebirds and the friarbirds, with a bill and tongue adapted for feeding on honey and the nectar of flowers.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.