flowerpecker

[ flou-er-pek-er ]

noun

1. any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flowerpecker¹

First recorded in 1880–85; flower + pecker

Example Sentences

Cebu flowerpecker, like so many other critically endangered species, continues to survive.

From Scientific American

His record-breaking 4,342nd species was a Sri Lanka frogmouth a month later, and a month after that he saw a flame-crowned flowerpecker in the Philippines for his 5,000th, nearly half of all the world’s known bird species.

From Slate

The spectacled flowerpecker, a small, wren-sized, grey bird, was feeding on some flowering mistletoe in a tree.

From BBC

Ceylon, which is famed for such exotic birds as the grey-headed babbler, red-faced malkoha and Legge's flowerpecker, also boasts two even rarer aves: the world's only female Prime Minister and the only female U.S. ambassador currently on duty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dicaeum chrysorrheum Temminck: Yellow-vented Flowerpecker.—I observed one feeding about 50 feet high among epiphytic plants in the moss forest 5.5 miles north of Tenom.

From Project Gutenberg