bee-eater

English

bee-eater
Merops apiaster

Etymology

From the diet of these birds, which consists of flying insects, especially bees and wasps.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbiː iːtəɹ/

Noun

bee-eater (plural bee-eaters)

Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see bee,‎ eater.
Any of various brightly-coloured, insectivorous, near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae, especially the European bee-eater, Merops apiaster.

Translations

bird in the family Meropidae

Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: بوشرقرق‎‎ m (bochreqreq)
Chechen: жIалин-къоьрг (žIalin-q̇örg)
Czech: vlha (cs) f
Danish: biæder c
Dutch: bijeneter (nl) m
Esperanto: abelmanĝulo
Finnish: mehiläissyöjä (fi)
French: guêpier (fr) m
Galician: meixengra, abellaruco
German: Bienenfresser (de) m
Greek: μελισσοφάγος (el) m (melissofágos)

Irish: beachadóir m
Italian: gruccione m, vespiere m
Navajo: tsísʼná yiyání
Polish: żołna f
Portuguese: abelharuco (pt) m
Romanian: viespar (ro), albinărel (ro) m
Russian: щу́рка (ru) f (ščúrka)
Spanish: abejaruco (es) m
Swedish: biätare (sv) c
Tagalog: manunubing, parikparik
Telugu: పచ్చరెక్క (paccarekka)
Walloon: wespî (wa) m

References

bee-eater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Meropidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Meropidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.