Honeysucker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the sunbirds. Africa

    "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."

  2. 2
    Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar wordnet
  3. 3
    A honeyeater. Australia, obsolete
  4. 4
    A honeyguide. obsolete
  5. 5
    A vacuum truck. South-Africa

Synonyms

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honey eaterhoney eater

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From honey + sucker.

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