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单词 flowerpecker
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Definition of flowerpecker in English:

flowerpecker

nounˈflaʊəˌpɛkəˈflou(ə)rˌpekər
  • A very small songbird with a short bill and tail, feeding chiefly on insects in flowers and found in Australasia and SE Asia.

    Family Dicaeidae (the flowerpecker family): two genera, especially Dicaeum. The flowerpecker family also includes the pardalotes and the mistletoe bird

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some groups (e.g. sunbirds, flowerpeckers) have keys to identification.
    • Even more salutary was the case of the four-coloured flowerpecker, thought to be extinct on the grounds that the Philippine island of Cebu, its only habitat, had been deforested.
    • I wondered if it had been a flowerpecker, but I was almost certain the head was entirely red, and the back wasn't the dark, flat blue of a flowerpecker.
    • Just on the other side of one window was a fruiting shrub that attracted two species of leaf birds, as well as orange-bellied flowerpeckers.
    • Fruits displayed on the tips of branches are available primarily to small birds-the flowerpeckers, mynas and delicate, hovering sunbirds that can feed on the wing.
 
 

Definition of flowerpecker in US English:

flowerpecker

nounˈflou(ə)rˌpekər
  • A very small songbird with a short bill and tail, feeding chiefly on insects in flowers and found in Australasia and Southeast Asia.

    Family Dicaeidae (the flowerpecker family): two genera, especially Dicaeum. The flowerpecker family also includes the pardalotes and the mistletoe bird

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Fruits displayed on the tips of branches are available primarily to small birds-the flowerpeckers, mynas and delicate, hovering sunbirds that can feed on the wing.
    • Even more salutary was the case of the four-coloured flowerpecker, thought to be extinct on the grounds that the Philippine island of Cebu, its only habitat, had been deforested.
    • Some groups (e.g. sunbirds, flowerpeckers) have keys to identification.
    • Just on the other side of one window was a fruiting shrub that attracted two species of leaf birds, as well as orange-bellied flowerpeckers.
    • I wondered if it had been a flowerpecker, but I was almost certain the head was entirely red, and the back wasn't the dark, flat blue of a flowerpecker.
 
 
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