Noun: honeycreeper 'hú-nee,kree-pu(r)
- Small bright-coloured tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar
"The iridescent blue honeycreeper flitted from flower to flower"
- Small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands
"The endangered honeycreeper searched for nectar in the native flowers";
- Hawaiian honeycreeper
Derived forms: honeycreepers
Type of: finch, oscine, oscine bird
Part of: Coerebidae, Dacninae, Drepanididae, family Coerebidae, family Dacninae, family Drepanididae
Encyclopedia: Honeycreeper