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HONEYCREEPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("honeycreeper" is a kind of...):
oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honeycreeper"):
banana quit (any of several honeycreepers)
Holonyms ("honeycreeper" is a member of...):
Coerebidae; Dacninae; family Coerebidae; family Dacninae (the honeycreepers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands
Synonyms:
Hawaiian honeycreeper; honeycreeper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("honeycreeper" is a kind of...):
finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honeycreeper"):
mamo (black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct)
Holonyms ("honeycreeper" is a member of...):
Drepanididae; family Drepanididae (Hawaiian honeycreepers)