1.
[syn: honeycreeper, Hawaiian honeycreeper]
2. small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar;
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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