hummingbird
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hummingbird (plural hummingbirds)
- Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
- 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
- Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]
- 1857 Thoreau, Henry David, journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
- French: colibri, oiseau-mouche
- German: Kolibri, Schwirrvogel
- Italian: colibrì, colibri
- Portuguese: beija-flor, colibri
- Russian: коли́бри
- Spanish: colibrí, (Colombia) chupaflor, (Mexico) chuparrosa, (Costa Rica) gorrión, (South America) picaflor, (Ecuadorian and Northern Peruvian Andes) quinde, (Venezuela) tucusito, (Panama) visitaflor, (Dominican Republic) zumbador, (Cuba) zunzún
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