单词 | colibri |
释义 | colibrin. A kind of hummingbird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird) > member of genus Colibri colibri1740 honeybird1794 violet-ear1861 1715 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum (ed. 2) Colibus, the Humming-bird, which is no bigger than a large Fly; yet makes a Noise like a Whirl~wind. Hence in Bailey.] 1740 Hist. Jamaica 333 As to Birds..the most famous is the Colibry or Humming-bird. 1812 W. Smellie & W. Wood tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular XVI. 382 M. de la Condamine never saw Colibris more numerous than in the gardens of Quito. 1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 347 Buzz of colibri. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1878) xvii. 279 ‘Look, Frank, that's a colibri; you've heard of colibris?’ Frank looked at the living gem which hung, loud humming, over some fantastic bloom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1740 |
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