apapane

English

Apapane

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian àpapane.

Noun

apapane (plural apapanes)

1. A member of the bright red species of honeycreeper, Himatione sanguinea, found in Hawaii.
   • 1915, William Alanson Bryan, Natural History of Hawaii, page 329:

     The species most commonly noted by strangers, however, is the beautiful dark blood-red bird, the apapane of the natives.

   • 1918, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, page 28:

     The specimen is in perfect order, the colors bright as when made. The yellow is oo, the central crescent is of black oo on the upper half and crimson apapane feathers on the lower.

   • 2021, Laura Landweber, Andrew Dobson, Genetics and the Extinction of Species, page 144:

     Both iiwis and apapanes also consume arthropods by gleaning and occasionally flycatching (pers. observ.).

   • 2023, William W. Dunmire, Birds of the National Parks in Hawaii:

     Look for this bright Hawaiian honeycreeper among flocks of appapanes in the forest.