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honey creeper

noun

  1. any small tropical American songbird of the genus Dacnis and related genera, closely related to the tanagers and buntings, having a slender downward-curving bill and feeding on nectar
  2. any bird of the family Drepanididae of Hawaii

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In and out, in and out, and among the bushes where the honey-creeper hung, he went looking for her.

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