Meaning of "mellivorous" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF MELLIVOROUS

mellivorous  [mɪˈlɪvərəs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELLIVOROUS

Mellivorous is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MELLIVOROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Honeyeater

The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family of small to medium sized birds most common in Australia and New Guinea, but also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea. Bali, on the other side of the Wallace Line, has a single species. Honeyeaters and the Australian chats make up the family Meliphagidae. In total there are 182 species in 42 genera, roughly half of them native to Australia, many of the remainder occupying New Guinea. With their closest relatives, the Maluridae, Pardalotidae, and Acanthizidae they comprise the superfamily Meliphagoidea and originated early in the evolutionary history of the oscine passerine radiation. Although honeyeaters look and behave very much like other nectar-feeding passerines around the world, they are unrelated, and the similarities are the consequence of convergent evolution. The extent of the evolutionary partnership between honeyeaters and Australasian flowering plants is unknown, but probably substantial.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELLIVOROUS»

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General zoology, or, Systematic natural history, by G. Shaw ...

MELLIVOROUS CREEPER. Certhia mellivora. C. olivaceo-ferruginea sub t us alba, gents fas- ciaque utrinque colli descendente nigris, remigibus margineflaves- centibus. Olivaceo-ferruginous Creeper, white beneath, with black cheeks and ...

George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, 1812

General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves.- v. 14, pt. 2. General index

MELLIVOROUS camrm. 245 somewhat semilunar yellow spot, with a small black speck between it and the eyes: quilland tail-feathers edged with bright yellow: bill black, and moderately stout: tongue strongly pencilled at the tip: legs dusky.

George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, 1812

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology

The exact dental relations of Tarsipes with the remaining Phalangeridae are doubtful, and its mode of origin can only be conjectured from the association of its reduced dentition with its mellivorous habit. It is extremely probable that the ...

Linnean Society of London, 1907

The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine

The second larva is mellivorous, and the transformations from the coarctate larval stage all take place within the unrent larval skin. 2nd. — The more spinoUs and larger triungulin of the still more prolific Meloe, with long caudal setse^but ...

‎1878

Transactions: Zoology

The exact dental relations of Tarsipes with the remaining Phalangeridae are doubtful, and its mode of origin can only be conjectured from the association of its reduced dentition with its mellivorous habit. It is extremely probable that the ...

Linnean Society of London, 1907

Handbook to The Birds of Australia

Certhia meUivora, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xxxvii, Goruck Creeper, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 243. Mellivorous Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. ii. p. 166. Merops chrysopterus, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xxxiii. Mellivorous Honey-eater, Lath.

John Gould, 1865

Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould

Sp. 332. ANELLOBIA MELLIVORA. Bausn WATTLE-BIRD. Cert/zia mellivora, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xxxvii. Goruck Creeper, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 243. Mellivorous Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. ii. p. 166. Merops chrysopterus ...

‎1865

The American Naturalist

The second larva is mellivorous, and the transformations from the coarctate larval stage all take place within the unrent larval skin. — We have : 2d — The more spinous and larger triungulin of the still more prolific Meloe, with long caudal setae ...

‎1878

Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis

The second larva is mellivorous, and the transformations from the coarctate larval stage all take place within the unrent larval skin. — We have : 2nd — The more spinous and larger triungulin of the still more prolific Meloc, with long caudal ...

Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1878

Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum: Passeriformes, ...

Mellivorous Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 166. Merops chrysopterus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxiii. Mellivorous Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 161. Anthochœra mellivora, Vig. 8t Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 321 (1826) ; Gould, B. Austr.

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, 1884