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Definition of Drepanis
1. Noun. A genus of Drepanididae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Drepanididae, Family Drepanididae
Member holonyms: Mamo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drepanis
Literary usage of Drepanis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Birds of the Tropical Islands of the Pacific Ocean by George Robert Gray (1859)
"Drepanis pacifica, Teram. ' Hoohoo ' or ' Oo ' of the natives of the Sandwich
... 33. f. 1. Certhia obscura, Gmel. SN ip 470. Drepanis obscura, Temm. ..."
2. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"Drepanis flava. Nectarinia flava. Bloxam, Byron, Voy. 249. Bill brown, as long
as the head, curved, end slender, subulate ; culmen rounded, raised between ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... and Drepanis ; and exhibits a tendency to forking. Fluffy feathering constantly
characterizes the back, flanks, or axillary region. ..."
4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"The next genus, Drepanis, has the sickle bill still further prolonged, forming
a segment of a circle, and covering nearly fifty degrees. ..."
5. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (1892)
"The feathers used by the ancient Hawaiians were : Mamo (Drepanis pacifica), Yellow
and black. ... Amakihi (Drepanis flava}, Yellow. ..."
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