Meaning

3 senses
  1. Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.

    A ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).

  2. A Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) or white-tailed rubythroat (Calliope pectoralis),of genus Calliope (syn. Luscinia).

  3. A ruby-throated bulbul (Rubigula dispar, syn. Pycnonotus dispar).

Origin

From ruby + throat.

From ruby + throat.

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Forms

plural: rubythroats
Singularrubythroat
Pluralrubythroats

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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