Any of various birds with thick parrot-like bills; spec. (a) an auk (cf. parrot, n.1 3, parrotbeak, n. 2) (U.S. regional, now rare); (b) any of…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Drepanididae (honey-creeper) (5) parrotbill1778 Any of various birds with thick parrot-like bills; spec. (a) an auk (cf. parrot, n.1 3, parrotbeak, n. 2) (U.S. regional, now rare); (b) any of… iiwi1784 A Hawaiian bird, the honeycreeper Vestiaria coccinea, whose red feathers were formerly used to make the cloaks of native chiefs. honeycreeper1872 Any of several small, nectar-feeding songbirds of tropical America, esp. of the genus Cyanerpes, formerly placed in the family Coerebidae and now… ou1887 A fruit-eating Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea (family Drepanididae), now very rare, having a stout bill and green plumage with a… Laysan finch1893 Used attributively in the name of various birds found on Laysan, an island in the Hawaiian archipelago, as Laysan albatross n. the albatross Diomedea… |
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