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meliphagid

meliphagid noun: any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater.

meliphagid: any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater
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Noun

meliphagid (plural meliphagids)

  1. Any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater.
    • Flowers with long, tubular corollas are visited mainly by long-billed meliphagids; the latter, however, also visit flowers of other types.1985, Allen Keast, An introductory ecological biogeography of the Australo-Pacific Meliphagidae: New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 13, number 4, page 620
    • The meliphagids, as their common name implies, are primarily nectar feeding or nectarivorous and were quite possibly prevented from any significant adaptive radiation on each main island by competition from the (presumably) earlier radiated Hawaiian honeycreepers.2002, Alan C. Ziegler, Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution, page 263
    Synonyms:
    honeyeater

Synonyms of meliphagid

Forms of meliphagid

pluralmeliphagids

Questions about meliphagid

What does meliphagid mean?
Meliphagid means any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater.
What part of speech is meliphagid?
Meliphagid is a noun.
What is the plural of meliphagid?
The plural of meliphagid is meliphagids.

Words near meliphagid in the dictionary

  1. meliorize
  2. meliorized
  3. meliorizes
  4. meliorizing
  5. meliphaga
  6. meliphagid
  7. meliphagids
  8. meliphagous
  9. meliphanite
  10. Melipilla
  11. meliponaries

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