Hummingbird vs Parrots - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hummingbird and parrots

is that hummingbird is any of various small american birds in the family trochilidae that have the ability to hover while parrots is .

As a verb parrots is

(parrot).

Other Comparisons: What's the difference?

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

    parrots

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (parrot)
  • Anagrams

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