Synonyms for hummingbird
ˈhʌm ɪŋˌbɜrdhum·ming·bird

Princeton's WordNet

1. hummingbirdnoun

   tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight

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1. • Apodiform Bird

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1. List of paraphrases for "hummingbird":

   hummingbirds

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How to use hummingbird in a sentence?

1. John Stamos:

   I don't know why I did it, but I videotaped it, and I got video of the little hummingbird that I think was Bob Saget.

2. Francesca Knittel Bowyer:

   Mummy had the fragility of an orchid, the energy of a hummingbird, the tenacity of a hunter. She could change calm waters into a raging storm with a look and the lift of a finger, my heart is a hole without her, but that hole will definitely be filled with incredible memories, sweet, salty and funny. I want her memory to linger with those who knew her and be given to those who did not.

3. Silvia Taylor:

   We recently initiated a trial that we're calling Hummingbird, which is a Phase 2b/3 trial, and that's going to be an effectiveness and efficacy trial and also clearly be looking at safety, and that will have three age cohorts, the first cohort of kids, that trial was already initiated, and that's for kids 6 to 11.

4. Chad Eliason:

   Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you’d only see black dust. The pigment in the feathers is black, but the shapes of the melanosomes that produce that pigment are what make the colors in hummingbird feathers that we see.