A hummingbird is no larger than a butterfly.
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Hummingbird
//ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɝd//
Synonyms for "hummingbird" (2 found)
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1 entriesderived
17 entriesAllen's hummingbirdAnna's hummingbirdCosta's hummingbirdLucifer hummingbirdbee hummingbirdgarnet-throated hummingbirdhummingbird hawkmothhummingbird mothhummingbird sagehummingbird vinehummingbirdlikeruby-throated hummingbirdrufous hummingbirdsword-billed hummingbirdvegetable hummingbirdvervain hummingbird
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4 entriesmeronym
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
142 translations across 116 languages.
Alabama
1 entries- ɬikònɬa noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Albanian
1 entries- kolibër noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Alcozauca Mixtec
1 entries- ndio'o noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Arabic
4 entries- طنان noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- طَنَان noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- طَنَّان noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- كوليبري noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Arikapú
1 entries- bitürü noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Armenian
1 entries- կոլիբրի noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Assamese
1 entries- মৌপিয়া noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Asturian
1 entries- colibrí noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Atikamekw
1 entries- rorokasiw noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Aymara
1 entries- luli noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kolibrilər noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Baniwa
1 entries- pimi noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Basque
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Belarusian
1 entries- калібры noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Breton
2 entries- evned-kelien noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- evnedigoù-lufr noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Bulgarian
1 entries- колибри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Cabécar
2 entries- batsu̱ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- batsu̱lá noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Catalan
1 entries- colibrí noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- lí·čič·i noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Chamicuro
1 entries- pishlo noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏩᎴᎷ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Cheyenne
1 entries- ma'kaataevé'késo noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Chickasaw
1 entries- lhikommak noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 蜂鳥 /蜂鸟 noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蜂鳥 /蜂鸟 noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Chol
1 entries- ts'uñuñ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- huitzitzilin noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Cornish
1 entries- edhen si noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Czech
1 entries- kolibřík noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Danish
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Dutch
1 entries- kolibrie noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Esperanto
1 entries- kolibro noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Estonian
1 entries- koolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Finnish
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
French
4 entries- colibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- oiseau de fleurs noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- oiseau-mouche noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- suce-fleur noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Galician
1 entries- colibrí noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Georgian
1 entries- კოლიბრი noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
German
2 entries- Kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- Schwirrvogel noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Greek
1 entries- κολιμπρί noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Guahibo
1 entries- si̱pi noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Haitian Creole
2 entries- wanganègès noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- zwazo mouch noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Hebrew
1 entries- קוֹלִיבְּרִי noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Hindi
1 entries- गुंजन पक्षी noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Hungarian
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Icelandic
1 entries- kólibrífugl noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Ido
1 entries- kolibrio noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Irish
1 entries- dordéan noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Italian
1 entries- colibrì noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Japanese
2 entries- 蜂雀 noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- 蜂鳥 noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Javanese
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Kaingang
1 entries- kókoj noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Karitiâna
1 entries- yjora noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Kashubian
1 entries- kòlibrë noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Kazakh
1 entries- қолибри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Kiliwa
1 entries- t'msok noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Klamath-Modoc
1 entries- p'isɁas noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Korean
1 entries- 벌새 noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- колибри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Latin
1 entries- colibris noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Latvian
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Lezgi
1 entries- коли́бри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Lithuanian
1 entries- kolibris noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Macedonian
1 entries- колибри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Malay
1 entries- burung madu noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഹമ്മിങ് ബേഡ് noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Manx
1 entries- ushag ving noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Mapudungun
1 entries- pinda noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Mezquital-Otomi
1 entries- gätu̱ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Mixtepec Mixtec
1 entries- nchoꞌo noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Mongolian
1 entries- эрээн дальт бяцхан шувуу noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Nahuatl
1 entries- huitzilin noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Navajo
1 entries- dahiitį́hii noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Nheengatu
1 entries- wainambí noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Occitan
2 entries- bècaflor noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- colibrí noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Pawnee
1 entries- rikuhcawiitakaaruʼ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Persian
1 entries- مرغ مگسخوار noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Pipil
1 entries- witzitzil noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Polish
1 entries- koliber noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Portuguese
2 entries- beija-flor noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- colibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਹਮਿੰਗ ਪੰਛੀ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Quechua
1 entries- q'inti noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Rikbaktsa
1 entries- ikyrik noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Romanian
1 entries- colibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Russian
1 entries- коли́бри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
San Jerónimo Tecóatl Mazatec
1 entries- ntsi̱ká noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- drannd-eun noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kolìbri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- колѝбри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Slovak
1 entries- kolibrík noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Slovene
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Spanish
4 entries- chupaflor noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- chuparrosa noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- colibrí noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- gorrión noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Sundanese
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Swahili
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Swedish
1 entries- kolibri noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Tagalog
3 entries- ibong humahaginit noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- ibong humuhugong noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- ibong umuugong noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Tamil
1 entries- ஓசனிச்சிட்டு noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Taos
1 entries- tȕculóna noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Tapirapé
1 entries- wãjnomyʼi noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Telugu
1 entries- హమ్మింగ్ పక్షి noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Thai
1 entries- ฮัมมิงเบิร์ด noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Tlahuica
1 entries- lindy noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Tulu
1 entries- ಹಮ್ಮಿಂಗ್ ಬರ್ಡ್ noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Turkish
1 entries- sinek kuşu noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Ukrainian
1 entries- колібрі noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Unami
1 entries- lèmpëlis noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Uyghur
1 entries- ھەرە قۇش noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chim ong noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
- chim ruồi noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Volapük
1 entries- kolibrit noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Wastek
1 entries- chunún noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Welsh
1 entries- sïedn noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
West-Frisian
1 entries- kolibry noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Western Mari
1 entries- колибри noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Yaqui
1 entries- semálulukut noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- tsʼunuʼun noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Záparo
1 entries- úyhiá noun (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Can you make out the hummingbird by that bush?
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I cannot see the hummingbird, because it is too far away.
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The hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world.
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