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Hummingbird vs Ostrich - What's the difference?

hummingbird | ostrich |

As nouns the difference between hummingbird and ostrich

is that hummingbird is any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover while ostrich is a large flightless bird (Struthio camelus) native to Africa.

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, [...]

    See also

    * snowcap

    ostrich

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A large flightless bird (Struthio camelus ) native to Africa.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
  • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich , wild boar and crocodile.}}

    See also

    * cassowary * emu * nandu * rhea