honeysucker
English
Alternative forms
- honey-sucker
Noun
honeysucker (plural honeysuckers)
- (Africa) Any of the sunbirds.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.
- (Australia, obsolete) A honeyeater.
- (obsolete) A honeyguide.
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