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Australasia vs Honeyeater - What's the difference?

australasia | honeyeater |

As a proper noun Australasia

is oceania.

As a noun honeyeater is

any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.

australasia

English

(wikipedia Australasia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Oceania
  • Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands

    • Usage notes

    This is an ambiguous term, whose precise meaning varies considerably depending on its field of use. But it has been used interchangeably with the word Oceania.

    Derived terms

    *

    honeyeater

    English

    (wikipedia honeyeater) (Meliphagidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the many Australasian birds of the family Meliphagidae, which have a tongue adapted for obtaining nectar from flowers.
  • * 1985', Hugh A. Ford, David C. Paton, ''Chapter 12: Habitat Selection in Australian '''Honeyeaters , with Special Reference to Nectar Productivity'', Martin L. Cody (editor), ''Habitat Selection in Birds , 376,
    • For all honeyeaters' combined and White-naped ' Honeyeaters , the only other common species, there is actually a negative correlation between abundance and nectar productivity.
  • * 1999 , Karen van Rheede van Oudtshoorn, Margaretha W. van Rooyen, Dispersal Biology of Desert Plants , page 23,
    • The spiny-cheeked honeyeater' has a more generalized diet and the gastrointestinal tract is similar structurally and proportionally to other ' honeyeaters .
  • * 2008 , Les Christidis, Walter Boles (editors), Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds , page 190,
    • The adopted sequence of genera of Australian honeyeaters follows that implied by the phylogeny of Driskell and Christidis (2004).

    Synonyms

    * meliphagid