honeyeater

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hon·ey·eat·er

noun \-ˌē-tər\

Definition of HONEYEATER

: any of a family (Meliphagidae) of oscine birds chiefly of the South Pacific that have a long extensible tongue adapted for extracting nectar and small insects from flowers

First Known Use of HONEYEATER

1822

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