honeycreeper

«honeycreeper» in Mova's school dictionary: a small, often brightly coloured bird that feeds on… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a honeycreeper, honeycreepers)

meaning for a pupil

A honeycreeper is a small, often brightly coloured bird that feeds on nectar and insects; there are Hawaiian honeycreepers and tropical American honeycreepers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons the Hawaiian honeycreepers are a famous example of adaptive radiation: from one ancestor many kinds evolved with different beaks for different foods, like Darwin's finches. Many are now endangered or extinct because of introduced mosquitoes, rats and lost forest. In Central and South America, honeycreepers like the red-legged honeycreeper are bright blue.

examples

• The red-legged honeycreeper has bright blue feathers. tree →
• Hawaiian honeycreepers have beaks of many different shapes. tree →
• The curved beak helps the honeycreeper drink nectar. tree →
• Many honeycreepers in Hawaii are endangered. tree →
• Mosquitoes brought malaria that harmed the honeycreepers. tree →
• We saw a honeycreeper in the rainforest canopy. tree →

note

Countable. One word. It is a name for several bird groups that are not all closely related; they share the habit of drinking nectar.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «honeycreeper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.