friarbird
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See also: friar bird
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friarbird (plural friarbirds)
- Any of several species of large Australian honeyeaters in the genus Philemon.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 186:
- The friar birds drove their beaks into the sweet white flesh of Bacchus Marsh apples.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 186:
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- See [1].