Meaning

1 senses
  1. Trochilus polytmus; a red-billed streamertail; scissor-tail hummingbird; scissors tail hummingbird (hummingbird)

    Wimpelschwanz, Jamaika-Kolibri, Rotschnabel-Jamaikasylphe

    вымпелохвостый коли́бриvympeloxvostyj kolíbri

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
hummingbird:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
hummingbird:

Origin

Compound of doctor + bird. The bird, endemic to Jamaica, is so named because its tail rese

Compound of doctor + bird. The bird, endemic to Jamaica, is so named because its tail resembles a stethoscope.

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Forms

plural: doctor birds
Singulardoctor bird
Pluraldoctor birds

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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