honeybird

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English[edit]

A juvenile brown-backed honeybird (left) with host parent rock-loving cisticola
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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hony brid (“honey-bird, bee”, also an epithet for Christ), equivalent to honey +‎ bird.

Noun[edit]

honeybird (plural honeybirds)

  1. Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.

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