Definition of "humming-bird" []

• Alternative form of hummingbird. (noun)

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• "I watch humming-bird hawk moths play round the marigolds in a flower bed in front."
• "It seemed to him that he beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads."
• "Esther was fussing about, as women do, before going to bed; she came and went and fluttered round, singing all the time; you might have thought her a humming-bird."