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(zoology, ornithology) Any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater..
Flowers with long, tubular corollas are visited mainly by long-billed meliphagids; the latter, however, also visit flowers of other types.
The meliphagids, as their common name implies, are primarily nectar feeding or nectarivorous and were quite possibly prevented from any significant adaptive radiation on each main island by competition from the (presumably) earlier radiated Hawaiian honeycreepers.
I am not familiar with any detailed studies of the ecology of nectarivores in the brushtongued parrots, meliphagids, and certain marsupial mammals in forests of Australia and New Guinea.
Use meliphagid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Meliphagid means (zoology, ornithology) Any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater..
Common synonyms include honeyeater.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Flowers with long, tubular corollas are visited mainly by long-billed meliphagids; the latter, however, also visit flowers of other types.
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