meliphagid

Definitions

1. 1

   Any bird of the family Meliphagidae

   Any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater.

   • Flowers with long, tubular corollas are visited mainly by long-billed meliphagids; the latter, however, also visit flowers of other types.
   • I am not familiar with any detailed studies of the ecology of nectarivores in the brushtongued parrots, meliphagids, and certain marsupial mammals in forests of Australia and New Guinea.

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