Meliphaga

Translingual

Etymology

From New Latin meliphaga, from Ancient Greek μέλι (méli, “honey”) + φαγητόν (phagētón, “food, consumption”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn) aorist of ἐσθίω (esthíō), ἔδω (édō, “to eat, to consume”).

Proper noun

Meliphaga f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Meliphagidae.

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