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/ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɜɹd/ · noun
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, …
Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.
Use hummingbird when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hummingbird means Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover..
Common synonyms include hummer, hummingbird.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, …
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