Cuckoo vs Hummingbird - What's the difference?
cuckoo | hummingbird |
Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the , Cuculus canorus , that has a characteristic two-note call.
The sound of that particular bird.
The bird shaped figure found in Swiss/German clocks (cuckoo clocks) or the clock itself.
Someone found where they shouldn't be (used especially in the phrase a cuckoo in the nest ).
Someone who is crazy.
Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
* 1857 Thoreau, Henry David , journal entry, May 29, 1857. From Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau'', Boston: Beacon Press, 1993, p238. (Originally published as the anthology ''Thoreau's bird-lore , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, edited by Francis H. Allen.)
As nouns the difference between cuckoo and hummingbird
is that cuckoo is any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially the pedia=1, Cuculus canorus, that has a characteristic two-note call while hummingbird is any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.As an adjective cuckoo
is crazy; not sane.As a verb cuckoo
is to make the call of a cuckoo.cuckoo
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(wikipedia cuckoo)Noun
(en noun)hummingbird
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(wikipedia hummingbird)Alternative forms
* humming bird, humming-birdNoun
(en noun)- Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]
