Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Australian meliphagine bird, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris, formerly called slender-billed creeper, or another of this genus, A. superciliosus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of the Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus, related to the honeyeaters.

Etymologies

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spine +‎ bill

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