Vulture vs Hummingbird - What's the difference?
vulture | hummingbird |
Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
(colloquial) A person who profits from the suffering of others.
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 vulture and hummingbird
is that vulture is any of several carrion-eating birds of the families accipitridae and cathartidae while hummingbird is any of various small american birds in the family trochilidae that have the ability to hover.vulture
English
(wikipedia vulture)Noun
(en noun)- Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
Synonyms
* (a person profits from the suffering of others) vampire, ambulance chaserDerived terms
* griffon vulture * turkey vulturehummingbird
English
(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, [...]
