Meaning

1 senses
  1. Either of the Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus, types of honeyeaters.

Origin

From spine + bill, possibly as a calque of translingual Acanthorhynchus, which was coined

From spine + bill, possibly as a calque of translingual Acanthorhynchus, which was coined at around the same time.

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