Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spiny-cheeked honeyeater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

Syllables: spiny-cheeked honeyeater
IPA

43

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

2

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis, of mainland Australia.

Example Sentences

"Interesting records were reported of Spiny-cheeked Honeyeaters moving locally in the Port Phillip district, Vic during May and September 1998."
"The spiny-cheeked honeyeater has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other honyeaters.[…]Due to thir specialized gut, mistletoe birds can rapidly defecate strings of one to nine A.^([Amyema]) quandang seeds, whereas spiny-cheeked honeyeaters experience considerable difficulty in defecating large numbers of seeds."
"Two other species of birds (the painted honeyeater and the spiny-cheeked honeyeater) also feed on mistletoes."

Inflected Forms

spiny-cheeked honeyeaters (plural)

Questions

What does spiny-cheeked honeyeater mean?: A honeyeater, Acanthagenys rufogularis, of mainland Australia.

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