Definition of "honeyeater" [honeyeater]

• Any of various birds of the family Meliphagidae of Australia and adjacent regions, having a long extensible tongue adapted for sucking nectar from flowers. (noun)

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• "One team discovered a new bird, the wattled smoky honeyeater, within seconds of leaving their expedition helicopter."
• "A honeyeater flies in through a window at the same moment we enter the door."
• "A team of scientists has discovered a lost world of rare plants, giant flowers and bizarre animals -- including a new species of honeyeater bird, a tree kangaroo and an egg-laying mammal -- on a mist-shrouded mountaintop in a remote province of Indonesia on New Guinea island."