Bananaquit

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A nectar-feeding bird, Coereba flaveola, thought to be related to the Darwin's finches and the grassquits.

    "Consider an example involving the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), a common land bird in Central and South America and on several Caribbean islands (Seutin et al., 1994)."

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"Consider an example involving the bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), a common land bird in Central and South America and on several Caribbean islands (Seutin et al., 1994)."

Etymology

From banana + quit (“small passerine bird”).

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darwin's finch

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