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Definition of Family Drepanididae
1. Noun. Hawaiian honeycreepers.
Exact synonyms: Drepanididae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Hawaiian Honeycreeper, Honeycreeper, Drepanis, Genus Drepanis
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Hawaiian Honeycreeper, Honeycreeper, Drepanis, Genus Drepanis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Drepanididae
Literary usage of Family Drepanididae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1888)
"These belong to eleven genera, eight of which are peculiar, and what is more
remarkable, four of them form a small family, Drepanididae, which has no ..."
2. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"belong to a family Drepanididae, which is absolutely confined to these islands
and which may have, ..."