HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hawaiian honeycreeper mean? 

• HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER (noun)
  The noun HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER has 1 sense:

1. small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands

  Familiarity information: HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPER (noun)

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Meaning:

Small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hawaiian honeycreeper; honeycreeper

Hypernyms ("Hawaiian honeycreeper" is a kind of...):

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Hawaiian honeycreeper"):

mamo (black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct)

Holonyms ("Hawaiian honeycreeper" is a member of...):

Drepanididae; family Drepanididae (Hawaiian honeycreepers)