Hummingbird

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
 * 2) * 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 published as the anthology Thoreau's bird-lore, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
 * Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

Alternative forms

 * Humming Bird

Etymology

 * Onomatopoeic of the humming sound made by the rapidly moving wings. See hum. See below Quotations

Translations

 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese: 蜂鸟
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: κολιμπρί (kolibri)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ハチドリ
 * Latin: colubris
 * Navajo:
 * Persian: مرغ مگس‌خوار
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: drannd-eun
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: colibrí, chupaflor , chuparrosa  , gorrión  ,   , quinde  , tucusito  , visitaflor  , zumbador  , zunzún
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: tȕculóna
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: kolibrit,  hikolibrit,  jikolibrit,  kolibritül,  hikolibritül,  jikolibritül,  smabödil
 * Yucatec Maya:

Related terms

 * trochilidine