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語源

From honey +‎ eater.

名詞

honeyeater (複数形 honeyeaters)

1. Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.
   • 1985, Hugh A. Ford, David C. Paton, Chapter 12: Habitat Selection in Australian Honeyeaters, with Special Reference to Nectar Productivity, Martin L. Cody (editor), Habitat Selection in Birds, 376,

     For all honeyeaters combined and White-naped Honeyeaters, the only other common species, there is actually a negative correlation between abundance and nectar productivity […] .

   • 1999, Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn; Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants, page 23:

     The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honeyeaters.

   • 2008, Les Christidis; Walter Boles, editors, Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, page 190:

     The adopted sequence of genera of Australian honeyeaters follows that implied by the phylogeny of Driskell and Christidis (2004).

同意語

• meliphagid

派生語