honeycreeper

noun

• 1a tropical American tanager (songbird) with a long curved bill, feeding on nectar and insects.

  • Genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes, family Emberizidae (subfamily Thraupinae): five species

• 2 (also Hawaiian honeycreeper) a Hawaiian songbird of variable appearance and with a specialized bill, several kinds of which are now endangered.

  • Family Drepanididae (or Fringillidae): several genera and species, often with Hawaiian names such as the iiwi and ou