honeyeater

English

A female crescent honeyeater, Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus

Wikispecies

Etymology

From honey +‎ eater.

Noun

honeyeater (plural honeyeaters)

1. Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.
   • 1985, Hugh A. Ford, David C. Paton, Chapter 12: Habitat Selection in Australian Honeyeaters, with Special Reference to Nectar Productivity, Martin L. Cody (editor), Habitat Selection in Birds, 376,

     For all honeyeaters combined and White-naped Honeyeaters, the only other common species, there is actually a negative correlation between abundance and nectar productivity […] .

   • 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23:

     The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honeyeaters.

   • 2008, Les Christidis, Walter Boles, editors, Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, page 190:

     The adopted sequence of genera of Australian honeyeaters follows that implied by the phylogeny of Driskell and Christidis (2004).

Synonyms

• meliphagid

Derived terms

• bar-breasted honeyeater
• blue-faced honeyeater
• brown honeyeater
• red-headed honeyeater
• spiny-cheeked honeyeater
• striped honeyeater
• white-gaped honeyeater
• white-plumed honeyeater

 

Translations

any bird of family Meliphagidae

• Catalan: menjamel m
• Czech: medosavka f
• Dutch: honingeter (nl) m
• Finnish: mesikko (fi)
• Korean: 꿀빨기새 (kkulppalgisae)
• Polish: miodojad (pl) m
• Russian: медосо́с (ru) m (medosós)
• Samoan: iao (sm)