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Definition of Banana quit
1. Noun. Any of several honeycreepers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banana Quit
Literary usage of Banana quit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The nest of this bird is very frequently, perhaps usually, built in those
WEST-INDIAN HONEY CREEPER OR banana quit. (Four-fifths natural size. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"... banana quit builds a domed nest in low trees or shrubs, seldom more than five
or six feet from the ground, often selecting a branch close to a door or ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"banana quit. — One of the most abundant and generally distributed species.
Often at Boston a dozen could be seen on the trees and bushes close to the house. ..."
4. English Compound Words and Phrases: A Reference List, with Statement of by Francis Horace Teall (1892)
"... banana= peel banana=plant banana=quit banana=skin band=axis band=bird bandbox
band=brake band=.coupling ..."
5. The Birds of Jamaica by Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill (1847)
"The name of Quit is applied without much discrimination by the negroes of Jamaica,
to several small birds, such as the banana quit, which is a Creeper, ..."
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