hummingbird

Definition

  • noun: a very small, brightly colored American bird that has wings which beat very fast
  • noun: any of a family (Trochilidae) of tiny brightly colored nonpasserine American birds related to the swifts that have a very slender bill and an extensible tongue for sipping nectar and that usually hover rather than perch when feeding
  • synonyms: humming bird

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  • (..) insurance salesmen or doctors or lawyers or Indian chiefs. This don't get fixed. Out here, death didn't seem natural. I had never seen a hummingbird that far out to sea. Before or since. And in may of , when I was years old... I'm coming! (..)
    2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • (..) you do drink a lot. We stayed in a small hotel with the grand name, "The Winter Palace." You have no idea what you're talking about. The hummingbird is not just another bird. Its heart rate is beats a minute. Its wings beat times a second. (..)
    2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button