drepanid

\\-_nə̇d\ noun (-s)

Etymology: irregular from New Latin Drepanididae

: a bird of the family Drepanididae : a Hawaiian honeycreeper

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drepanid Zool.

(ˈdrɛpɑːnɪd)

[f. Gr. δρέπαν-ον scythe + -id.]

A fish belonging to the Drepanidæ, a family of scombroid acanthopterygian fishes, the typical genus of which is Drepane, so called from its elongated falciform pectoral fins.

From same source, ˈdrepaniform a., sickle-shaped, falciform. ‖ ˈDrepanis [mod.L.], a genus of birds; the sickle-billed sunbirds of the South Sea Islands. ‖ dreˈpanium, Bot. [mod.L.], ‘Eichler's term for a sickle-shaped cyme, in which the lateral axes are all in the median plane and spring from the upper side of the curved axis.’ ˈdrepanoid a., ‘scythe or sickle-shaped ’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1883).