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Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• BIRDSBEAK
  A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak.
• HONEYTONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• Coloradoite
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• Honey-bag
  The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
• Honeywort
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees.
• Sharpling
  A stickleback.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• BIRDSEYE
  A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.
• SHARPCUT
  Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well- defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
• Colorate
  Colored.
• Honeybee
  Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considere
• Juiceless
  Lacking juice; dry.
• Sharply
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.
• BIRDSEYEMAPLE
  See under Maple.
• SHARPSET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• American
  Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.

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