Meanings
plural honeysuckers · alternative honey-sucker
- AfricaAny of the sunbirds.
There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC - AustraliaobsoleteA honeyeater.
- obsoleteA honeyguide.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAustralasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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