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honey creeper

Meaning of "honey creeper" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HONEY CREEPER

honey creeper


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HONEY CREEPER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Honey creeper is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HONEY CREEPER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of honey creeper in the English dictionary

The definition of honey creeper in the dictionary is any small tropical American songbird of the genus Dacnis and related genera, closely related to the tanagers and buntings, having a slender downward-curving bill and feeding on nectar. Other definition of honey creeper is any bird of the family Drepanididae of Hawaii.



WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HONEY CREEPER

honey · honey badger · honey bear · honey buzzard · honey fungus · honey guide · honey locust · honey mesquite · honey mouse · honey phalanger · honey plant · honey-coloured · honey-eater · honey-like · honey-sweet · honeybee · honeybun · honeybunch · honeycomb · honeycomb moth

WORDS THAT END LIKE HONEY CREEPER

beekeeper · beeper · cheeper · creeper · Culpeper · doorkeeper · gatekeeper · goalkeeper · housekeeper · innkeeper · keeper · minesweeper · peacekeeper · road sweeper · shopkeeper · sleeper · steeper · sweeper · timekeeper · weeper · zookeeper

Synonyms and antonyms of honey creeper in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «honey creeper» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HONEY CREEPER

Find out the translation of honey creeper to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of honey creeper from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «honey creeper» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

蜂蜜爬行
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

miel enredadera
570 millions of speakers
en

English

honey creeper
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

मधु लता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العسل الزاحف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

мед лианы
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

mel trepadeira
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মধু Buzzard
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

miel de vigne
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Buzzard madu
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Honig Kriechgang
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ハニークリーパー
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

꿀 발바리
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Honey buzzard
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mật ong cây leo
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தேன் கரடுமுரடான
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मध बुग्गार्ड
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Ballı şahin
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

miele creeper
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

miód pnącze
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

мед ліани
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

miere cățărătoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέλι αναρριχητικό φυτό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heuning rankplant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

honung creeper
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

honning creeper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of honey creeper

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HONEY CREEPER»

Discover the use of honey creeper in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to honey creeper and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The birds of South America
143, 1898 (Santa Д/ш'ш, Colombia). Santa Maria Blue Honey-Creeper. nígripes, Pelzuln, Sitzungsb. Ak. Wien, хх. р. 154, pl. i. figs. 1, 2, 1856 (Novo Fribur-go). Beslieï. Blue` Honey-Creeper. angeliCa., Bonap., Atti Sesia 1111111. Soo. Ital. р.
Lord Brabourne, Ch. Chubb
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A Catalogue of the Birds of the West Indies: Which Do Not ...
COEREBA CYANEA (Linn.). Blue-headed Creeper. Cuba. COEREBA ATRATA ( Lawr.). Black-headed Honey Creeper. St. Vincent and Grenada. COEREBA MARTINICANA (Reich.). Grcen-rumped Honey Creeper. Santa Lucia and Martinique.
Charles Johnson Maynard, 1898
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Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian
Same as the honey creeper called 'akialoa on O'ahu (Hemignalhus obscurus ellisianus). 'i'lwl haole. n. Cape honeysuckle (Tecomaria capensis), a climbing shrub bearing narrow, curved, tubular, scarlet flowers and fernlike leaves (Neal 765), ...
Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, 1986
4
1001 Questions Answered about Birds
Africa, Asia and islands to New Zealand. . vireo (41 species). New World. . honey -creeper (36 species). New World tropics. Hawaiian honey-creeper (22 species). Hawaii. wood warbler (109 species). New World. weaver-finch (263 species).
Allan D. Cruickshank, Helen Gere Cruickshank, 1976
5
So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins ...
"That honey creeper, green honey creeper. The pygmy owl fools him. Like this." He suddenly puckered his lips and gave a tremulant, dying whistle; afterward, he smiled at them for the first time. "And you see cornbirds. Tody- tyrants, too.
John T. Irwin, Jean McGarry, 2005
6
Potluck: Stories That Taste Like Hawaii
Possibly derived from holo (to run or to flow) because of the train. It's a more formal mu'u mu'u, usually floor-length, with a high, yoked neckline and long sleeves. HONEY CREEPER Vestiaria coccinea The most popular is the Hawaiian i'iwi, ...
Catherine Bridges Tarleton, 2001
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Paradise Stitched-Sashiko & Applique Quilts
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Sylvia Pippen, 2010
8
What Goes Without Saying: Collected Stories of Josephine ...
"That honey creeper, green honey creeper. The pygmy owl fools him. Like this." He suddenly puckered his lips and gave a tremulant, dying whistle; afterward, he smiled at them for the first time. "And you see cornbirds. Tody-tyrants, too.
Josephine Jacobsen, 2000
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The Chambers Dictionary
hon eycomb-moth a bee-moth; honeycomb stitch an embroidery stitch used to hold the gathers made when smocking: honey creeper any of several kinds of small, brightly-coloured S American birds which feed on nectar; hon ey-crock a crock ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
10
Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, ...
Mr. Maynard (1896) writes: “The song of the Bahama Honey Creeper consists of a series of low crackling notes, quite unlike the sounds emitted by any other bird, excepting very closely allied species. They also produce a chattering with the ...
Arthur Cleveland Bent, 1950

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HONEY CREEPER»

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Talking Nature: Tropical encounters at the Como Park Zoo
-Female red-legged honey creeper (we never saw). Travis posted some information on his photo web site about some of the birds. With his ... «ABC Newspapers, Jan 15»
2
Island Air Unveils New 'I'iwi Bird Logo
The 'i'iwi bird, also known as the Scarlet Hawaiian honey creeper, was prized in old Hawaiʻi, for its vibrant feathers which were used “to make ... «Maui Now, Jan 14»
3
Assembly of Dust with Scott Metzger - Second Song @ The Bowery …
Assembly of Dust - Honey Creeper @ The Bowery Ballroom NYC - Duration: 9:32. by ilikebeers 346 views. 9:32. Play next; Play now. «YouTube, Apr 13»
4
What do you mean, "ecology?"
And so it happened that from that single honey creeper species more than forty, now considered distinctly separate species, evolved. «OpEdNews, May 12»
5
Fairfax County home sales
Honey Creeper Ct., 9205-Jorge A. Banales to James O. Pasco, $335,000. Old Burke Lake Rd., 9220-Sylvia Yon to Ashley Yuan, $430,000. «Washington Post, Mar 12»
REFERENCE
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