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Definition: HUMMINGBIRDS

Part of Speech Definition
Noun Plural 1. Plural inflection of the noun hummingbird.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Noun Base
(hummingbird)		 1. Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight.[Wordnet].

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"Hummingbirds" is a common misspelling or typo for: humming-birds.

Date "Hummingbirds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references)

Specialty Definition: HUMMINGBIRDS

Domain Definition
Biology & Biotechnology Family of the order apodiformes known for the smalls size of the species and the brilliant plumage. Source: European Union. (references)

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Common Expressions: HUMMINGBIRDS

Expressions Definition
Hummingbirds (band) The Hummingbirds were an indie pop band from Sydney, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were one of the first bands signed to the rooArt label, and had a chart hit with Blush. They were fronted by Simon Holmes and Robyn St. Clair, who also recorded with RatCat and Sneeze. (references)
Hummingbirds (Venus Hum) Venus Hum's Hummingbirds was released on October 22, 2002 by Mono Fi Music. (references)
The Dixie Hummingbirds The Dixie Hummingbirds is one of the most influential groups in gospel music, spanning more than 75 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of Gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of the present era. Formed in the 1920s in Greenville, South Carolina, by James B. Davis and his classmates, they sang in local churches until they finished school, then started touring throughout the South. The group relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1940s. (references)
The Hummingbirds The Hummingbirds are an Australian jangle pop band formed in 1986 from members of the band Bug Eyed Monsters. They debuted in 1987 with Alimony, followed by Everything You Said, Swim to Shore and Hindsight. The Hummingbirds then signed to rooART and recorded loveBUZZ with Mitch Easter. It was a major hit and earned an American release, though sales were slow despite excellent reviews. They continued recording for Australian audiences until 1993, when the group disbanded. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: HUMMINGBIRDS

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
List of hummingbirds 30     Hummingbirds (Venus Hum) 3
List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order 15     List of hummingbirds 30
The Dixie Hummingbirds 10     List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order 15
The Hummingbirds 5     The Dixie Hummingbirds 10
Hummingbirds (Venus Hum) 3     The Hummingbirds 5

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"hummingbirds" is a common misspelling or typo for: humming-birds.

Synonyms: hummingbirds
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 swifts, trochilidae.
Consider also: humming-birds, sylphs, coquettes.

Expression

 family trochilidae.
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Computed Synonyms: hummingbirds

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   3.0998   hummingbirds     hummingbird     humming bird, colibri, coquette, sylph, flower bird   
 2   2.1088   hummingbirds     coquettes     flirts, jilts, minxes, seducers, flatterers   
 3   2.1088   hummingbirds     sylphs     nymphs, sprites, fairies, goblins, fays   
 4   1.1091   hummingbirds     imbibes     blots, quaffs, assimilates, ingrains, swallows   
 5   1.1091   hummingbirds     soundings     sounds, goodings, looks, fairings, probes   
 6   1.1090   hummingbirds     buzzers     hummers, droners, murmurers, whirrers, noisers   
 7   1.0188   hummingbirds     highfalutin     highfaluting, bombastic, stilted, pompous, grandiloquent   
 8   1.0090   hummingbirds     colibri     hummingbird, coquette, sylph, honeysucker   
 9   1.0089   hummingbirds     orotund     sonorous, sounding, bombastic, resonant, turgid   
 10   1.0089   hummingbirds     resounding     resonant, ringing, sonorous, sounding, reverberate   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HUMMINGBIRDS

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya طَنَّان (buzzer, orotund, resonant, sounding, buzzers). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha طَنَّان (buzzer, orotund, resonant, sounding, buzzers). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic طَنَّان (buzzer, orotund, resonant, sounding, buzzers). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese beija-flores (hummingbirds), colibris (hummingbirds). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish kolibrier (hummingbirds). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 蜂鸟 (hummingbird, hummer, humming-bird, hummingbirds, humming-birds). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 蜂鳥 (hummer, hummingbird, humming-bird, hummingbirds, humming-birds). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish kolibrier (hummingbirds). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk kolibrier (hummingbirds). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Kolibrie (hummingbirds). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch kolibrie (hummingbird, colibri, humming-bird, hummingbirds). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Français oiseaux-mouches (hummingbirds), colibris (hummingbirds). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
French oiseaux-mouches (hummingbirds), colibris (hummingbirds). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
German Kolibrie (hummingbirds). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek κολίβρια (hummingbirds), τροχιλίδες (hummingbirds). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) kolivria (hummingbirds), trokhilidhes (hummingbirds). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic طَنَّان (buzzer, orotund, resonant, sounding, buzzers). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Kolibrie (hummingbirds). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Kolibrie (hummingbirds). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ハチドリ (hummingbird, colibri, coquette, hummingbirds, sylph). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese chupa-méis (hummingbirds), beija-flores (hummingbirds), colibris (hummingbirds). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland kolibrier (hummingbirds). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish colibries (colibris, hummingbirds). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, hummingbirds. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: HUMMINGBIRDS

Language Translations for “hummingbirds” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin ummingbirdshay (hummingbirds). Additional references: Pig Latin, hummingbirds. (volunteer)
Terran B colibriso (hummingbirds). Additional references: Terran B, hummingbirds. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: HUMMINGBIRDS

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin 500 BCE - 1700 Trochilidae (hummingbird, hummingbirds). Additional references: Latin, hummingbirds. (volunteer)
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