Definitions for honey-guide

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honey-guide honey guide

Honey-Guide is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 326 anagrams from letters in honey-guide (-deeghinouy).

Definitions for honey-guide

noun

1. any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.

Origin of honey-guide

First recorded in 1780-90

Examples for honey-guide

Again abundance of honey was obtained through the means of the “honey guide.”

It is as follows:—In Africa there is a bird—a species of cuckoo—known as the Indicator bird, or honey guide.