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)

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

Translations

bird in the family Meropidae

Arabic:
Moroccan Arabic: بوشرقرق‎ m (bochreqreq)
Chechen: жӏалин-къоьрг (žʿalin-q̇örg)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 食蜂鳥, 食蜂鸟 (shífēngniǎo), 蜂虎科 (fēnghǔ-kē) (family)
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 (it) m, vespiere m
Japanese: ハチクイ (hachikui), ハチクイ科 (hachikui-ka) (family)
Korean: 벌잡이새 (beoljabisae)
Latin: merops m
Navajo: tsísʼná yiyání
Polish: żołna f
Portuguese: abelharuco (pt) m
Romanian: viespar (ro), albinărel (ro) m, prigoare (ro) f, prigorie (ro) f
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

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