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bell miner

bell miner noun: a bellbird, a honeyeater of species Manorina melanophrys, endemic to southeastern Australia.

Noun

bell miner (plural bell miners)

  1. A bellbird, a honeyeater of species Manorina melanophrys, endemic to southeastern Australia.
    • One species, the bell miner, is so keen on lerp and so protective of its sources that it fights off all other birds, including the small insectivorous ones that would eat the psyllids.2016 December, Nigel Andrew, “Beware the Cassowary”, in Literary Review

Forms of bell miner

pluralbell miners

Origin of bell miner

Originally "bellbird", ornithologically altered to "bell miner" due to membership of the genus Mamorina, which were called "miners" owing to the similarity in appearance of Manorina melanocephala to the Indian myna.

Questions about bell miner

What does bell miner mean?
Bell miner means a bellbird, a honeyeater of species Manorina melanophrys, endemic to southeastern Australia.
What part of speech is bell miner?
Bell miner is a noun.
What is the plural of bell miner?
The plural of bell miner is bell miners.

Words near bell miner in the dictionary

  1. bell lyras
  2. bell lyre
  3. bell lyres
  4. bell metal
  5. bell metals
  6. bell miner
  7. bell miners
  8. Bell number
  9. Bell numbers
  10. bell out
  11. Bell Park

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