Definition of Drepanis

1. Noun. A genus of Drepanididae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Drepanis
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Drepanididae, Family Drepanididae
Member holonyms: Mamo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drepanis

Drava
Drave
Dravidian
Dravidian language
Dravidians
Dravidic
Drayton
Dreaming
Dreamtime
Drechslera
Dred Scott
Dreiser
Dreissena polymorpha
Drenthe
Drepanididae
Drepanis (current term)
Dresden
Dresdenware
Dresdner
Dresdners
Dressler's syndrome
Dressler's syndromes
Dressler beat
Dreulofoy's lesion
Drew
Dreyer
Dreyer's formula
Dreyers
Dreyfus
Dreyfusard

Literary usage of Drepanis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Birds of the Tropical Islands of the Pacific Ocean by George Robert Gray (1859)
"Drepanis pacifica, Teram. ' Hoohoo ' or ' Oo ' of the natives of the Sandwich ... 33. f. 1. Certhia obscura, Gmel. SN ip 470. Drepanis obscura, Temm. ..."

2. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"Drepanis flava. Nectarinia flava. Bloxam, Byron, Voy. 249. Bill brown, as long as the head, curved, end slender, subulate ; culmen rounded, raised between ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... and Drepanis ; and exhibits a tendency to forking. Fluffy feathering constantly characterizes the back, flanks, or axillary region. ..."

4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"The next genus, Drepanis, has the sickle bill still further prolonged, forming a segment of a circle, and covering nearly fifty degrees. ..."

5. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (1892)
"The feathers used by the ancient Hawaiians were : Mamo (Drepanis pacifica), Yellow and black. ... Amakihi (Drepanis flava}, Yellow. ..."

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