Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical and only genus of Mellivorinæ, founded by Storr in 1780. There are two species, the Indian and the African honey-badger or ratel, M. indica and M. capensis.
  • noun A genus of hymenopterous insects.

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  • noun ratels

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Examples

  • Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Honey Badger or ratel mellivora capensis Not as cuddly as the other denizens of the Village Zoo, but it has 'tude to spare.

    July 13th, 2007 quietselkie 2007

  • Both it and the _Florisuga mellivora_ are short billed, generally catching flying insects, and do not frequent flowers so much as other humming-birds.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • Both it and Florisuga mellivora are short billed, generally catching flying insects, and do not frequent flowers so much as other humming-birds.

    The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

  • HUMMING-BIRDS (Florisuga mellivora, LINN.).) (PLATE 10.

    The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

  • Cape ratel (_mellivora_), the panda (_ailurus_), the benturong

    Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

  • Anthochaera carunculata, VIG. and HORSF. — — — — — — mellivora, VIG. and

    Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

  • Amongst the last was the beautiful blue, green, and white humming-bird (Florisuga mellivora, Linn.); the head and neck deep metallic-blue, bordered on the back by a pure white collar over the shoulders, followed by deep metallic-green; on the underside the blue neck is succeeded by green, the green from the centre of the breast to the end of the tail by pure white; the tail can be expanded to a half circle, and each feather widening towards the end makes the semicircle complete around the edge.

    The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

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