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Hummingbird vs Woodnymph - What's the difference?

hummingbird | woodnymph |

As nouns the difference between hummingbird and woodnymph

is that hummingbird is any of various small american birds in the family trochilidae that have the ability to hover while woodnymph is (mythology) a nymph residing in a forest, a dryad.

hummingbird

English

(wikipedia hummingbird)

Alternative forms

* humming bird, humming-bird

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.)
    • Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, [...]

    Related terms

    (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae) * trochilidine

    See also

    * snowcap

    woodnymph

    English

    (wikipedia woodnymph) (Thalurania)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mythology) A nymph residing in a forest, a dryad.
  • A hummingbird of the genus Thalurania .