honeysucker

English

Alternative forms

• honey-sucker

Etymology

From honey +‎ sucker.

Noun

honeysucker (plural honeysuckers)

1. (Africa) Any of the sunbirds.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     There were also many palms, some of them more than one hundred feet high, and the largest and most beautiful tree ferns that I ever saw, about which hung clouds of jewelled honeysuckers and great-winged butterflies.

2. (Australia, obsolete) A honeyeater.
3. (obsolete) A honeyguide.