How to use sugarbird in a sentence
It was called the sugar-bird, because it was said to be fond of the sugar-cane, and that it could eat sugar in great abundance.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2) | Johann BeckmanThe sugar-bird is delicious when close by, but his pipe is too soft to be heard at any distance.
Letters from the Cape | Lady Duff GordonNothing in nature can exceed in splendour the plumage of the sugar-bird.
The Giraffe Hunters | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for sugar bird
sugar bird
noun
a South African nectar-eating bird, Promerops cafer, with a long curved bill and long tail: family Meliphagidae (honey-eaters)
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