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humming-bird

n. (alternative form of hummingbird English)

Usage examples of "humming-bird".

Tom, as he sank upon a bench, and gazed from the balloonist to the Humming-Bird, and hack to Mr.

On a line with the Humming-Bird, and at about the same elevation, were the Bleriot monoplane and a Wright biplane.

We could outfly and beat down those scarlet humming-birds wherever they appeared.

Linda, from a mixture of politeness and interest, looked for the second time at the tall ostriches, the birds of paradise, the humming-birds brilliant and fragile as flowers, the lone, duck-billed platypus.

LIKE dangling emerald pendants the two humming-birds were making their last rounds of the hibiscus and a mocking bird had started on its evening song, sweeter than a nightingale's, from the summit of a bush of night-scented jasmine.