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Hummingbird   /hˈəmɪŋbˌərd/   Listen
Hummingbird

noun
1.
Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight.



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"Hummingbird" Quotes from Famous Books



... of color she margined one side of her drawing with a little spray of Pentstemon whose bright tubular flower the canyon knew as "hummingbird's dinner horn." That gave, her the idea of introducing a touch of living interest, so bearing down upon the flowers from the upper right-hand corner of her drawing she deftly sketched in a ruby-throated hummingbird, ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter
... of Invertebrates and between these groups there are greater differences of structure than there is between a horse and a hummingbird. The principal ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... centre he perceived a post, and something waving on it, which was the scalp. Now and then the air was rent with the Sau-sau-quan, for they were dancing the war dance around it. Before he could be perceived, he turned himself into a No-noskau-see (hummingbird), and ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft


Words linked to "Hummingbird" :   vegetable hummingbird, apodiform bird, family Trochilidae, Trochilidae, Archilochus colubris, thornbill, hummingbird moth


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