Hummingbird vs Ostrich - What's the difference?
hummingbird | ostrich |
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.)
A large flightless bird (Struthio camelus ) native to Africa.
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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
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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, [...]
See also
* snowcapostrich
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(es)Nick Miroff
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