bananaquit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A nectar-feeding bird, Coereba flaveola, thought to be related to the Darwin's finches and the grassquits.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies."
- "It had been weeks since Valerie had been outside on the patio, weeks since Ana had left out sugar water for the hummingbirds and bananaquits, who still continued to flutter around the empty feeders ever hopeful that their easy nectar would return."