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 thegenus Acanthorhynchus , related to thehoneyeaters .
Etymologies
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spine + bill
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