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单词 hum-bird
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hum-birdn.

Etymology: < hum n.1 or hum v.1 + bird n.
Obsolete.
= hummingbird n.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird)
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1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 28 As she flies, she makes a little humming noise like a Humble-bee: wherefore shee is called the Humbird.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. viii. 315 The Humbird, not much exceeding a Beetle. View more context for this quotation
1698 B. Bullivant in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 168 The Hum-bird I have shot with Sand.
1819 J. R. Drake Culprit Fay iv Some from the hum-bird's downy nest.
1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing i. 38 They both came within a humbird's eye of it.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 377 The tiny Mango Hummingbird (Trochilus colubris)..is known familiarly..as Humbird or Hummer simply.
1891 R. T. Cooke Huckleberries (1896) 167 I never see a humbird fuller o' buzz than little Prudy.
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