Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

honeyeater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

Syllables: hon-eyeater
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.

Example Sentences

"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 […] ."
"The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honeyeaters."
"The adopted sequence of genera of Australian honeyeaters follows that implied by the phylogeny of Driskell and Christidis (2004)."

Etymology

From honey + eater.

Inflected Forms

honeyeaters (plural) honey-eater (alternative)

Phrases

bar-breasted honeyeater blue-faced honeyeater brown honeyeater New Holland honeyeater obscure honeyeater red-headed honeyeater spiny-cheeked honeyeater striped honeyeater

Synonyms

meliphagid

Questions

What does honeyeater mean?: Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.
Where does honeyeater come from?: From honey + eater.

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