Honeycreeper

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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