hummingbird
蜂鸟,蜂鸟类,蜂鸣器,鸟类
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- : a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
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The strategy seems meant to address the hummingbird effect of people flitting from one streaming subscription to another each month, as sought-after shows and movies leave one service and land on another.
He should be wintering down south with the hummingbirds, but he’s drawing crowds at the C&O Canal.
There shouldn’t be a hummingbird at Green Spring Gardens this time of year.
The Nazca people created these images—depicting such characters as a whale, a hummingbird, and an astronaut-esque man—nearly 2,000 years ago.
A security consultant receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit containing a taxidermic hummingbird.
Take Huitzilopochtli, the typically tongue-twisting Aztec name of an old hummingbird god.
The L.A. indie rockers are back with Hummingbird, the highly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed debut, Gorilla Manor.
The home now has a new locked metal mailbox decorated with an intricate metal hummingbird and scorpion.
My eldest son, a sleepy teenager, found a damp baby hummingbird, dazed and confused.
After her death, they said, they saw her in the trees, in the hummingbird's flight, in the clouds.
I have try lately to console myself to find another woman, as much as it is possible like my hummingbird.
Then comes a ball to which I shall wear a frock all little fluttering iridescent draperies, suggesting an airy hummingbird.
Hummingbird was a charming boat in every respect, comparatively roomy, a good sea boat, and a wonderful performer to windward.
The wee mother hummingbird never left her nest on the lower oak limb.
Their nests are among the most beautiful of bird architecture, even surpassing that of the Hummingbird.