Definition of "hummingbird" []

• Any of numerous New World birds of the family Trochilidae, usually very small in size and having brilliant iridescent plumage, a long slender bill, and wings capable of beating very rapidly, thereby enabling the bird to hover. (noun)

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• "Then, without warning he zipped off the branch doing something I call the hummingbird dance, which is an aerial display of avian acrobatics at lightning speed."
• "I think Kristin's image of a hummingbird is "le mot juste" for Newforest!!"
• "As I type, a hummingbird is feasting at the honeysuckle outside my window."