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# hummingbird

«hummingbird» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very small, brightly coloured bird from the Americas…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hummingbird, hummingbirds)

### meaning for a pupil

A hummingbird is a very small, brightly coloured bird from the Americas that beats its wings so fast they hum, and that can hover in one place and even fly backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, hummingbirds are an example of adaptation: long thin beaks and tongues for drinking nectar from flowers, very fast wing beats (dozens of beats each second), and a very fast heartbeat. They help pollinate flowers. The smallest bird in the world, the bee hummingbird, is a hummingbird. They live in North, Central and South America only.

### examples

- A hummingbird hovered beside the red flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#x1)
- Hummingbirds can fly backwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#x2)
- The hummingbird drank nectar with its long tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#x3)
- Its wings beat so fast they looked like a blur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#x4)
- The bee hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#x5)
- We hung a feeder with sugar water for the hummingbirds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/#x6)

### note

One word, countable: hummingbirds. Hummingbirds live only in the Americas, not in the UK, Europe or Australia. They are named after the humming sound of their wings, not because they hum songs.

### In the corpora

- [Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do not ride on geese.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/9/)
- [A hummingbird can hover by beating its wings dozens of times a second.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hummingbird» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hummingbird/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.