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humming-bird

humming-bird is the alternative form of hummingbird.

Meaning of hummingbird

Noun

hummingbird (plural hummingbirds)

  1. Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
    • 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...
    Synonyms:
    hummer

Forms of humming-bird

pluralhumming-birds

Questions about humming-bird

What is humming-bird the alternative form of?
Humming-bird is the alternative form of hummingbird.

Words near humming-bird in the dictionary

  1. humming October
  2. humming stone
  3. humming stones
  4. humming top
  5. humming tops
  6. humming-bird
  7. humming-birds
  8. humming-top
  9. humming-tops
  10. hummingbird
  11. hummingbird hawkmoth

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