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Definition of Honeyeaters
1. honeyeater [n] - See also: honeyeater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honeyeaters
Literary usage of Honeyeaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... Pigeons, honeyeaters, and Cuckoos, are richest in species. Ina considerable
degree this is also the case with the orders ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"The plumage of the female is in every respect similar to that of the male ; but,
as in the honeyeaters of Australia generally, particularly amongst the ..."
3. Cruise of the "Alert": Four Years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene by Richard William Coppinger (1883)
"... and several honeyeaters, flycatchers, and shrikes ; so that as a place for
bird collecting it was exceedingly rich, both in numbers and species. ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1896)
"About 70 miles north of Mount Bates I noticed several of these little honeyeaters
on the Grevillea trees, which were in full blossom, and on 2nd October Mr. ..."
5. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"... precisely in the way in which the honeyeaters among birds do theirs into the
flower- cups for honey; every morning the sop was completely honeycombed, ..."
6. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"... red and blue head skin, and sharp four-inch (12-cm) toe-claws that can disembowel
prey. Among others are lovely golden bowerbirds, bridled honeyeaters, ..."
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