hummingbird

«hummingbird» in Mova's school dictionary: a very small, brightly coloured bird from the Americas… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hummingbird, hummingbirds)

meaning for a pupil

A hummingbird is a very small, brightly coloured bird from the Americas that beats its wings so fast they hum, and that can hover in one place and even fly backwards. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, hummingbirds are an example of adaptation: long thin beaks and tongues for drinking nectar from flowers, very fast wing beats (dozens of beats each second), and a very fast heartbeat. They help pollinate flowers. The smallest bird in the world, the bee hummingbird, is a hummingbird. They live in North, Central and South America only.

examples

• A hummingbird hovered beside the red flower. tree →
• Hummingbirds can fly backwards. tree →
• The hummingbird drank nectar with its long tongue. tree →
• Its wings beat so fast they looked like a blur. tree →
• The bee hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world. tree →
• We hung a feeder with sugar water for the hummingbirds. tree →

note

One word, countable: hummingbirds. Hummingbirds live only in the Americas, not in the UK, Europe or Australia. They are named after the humming sound of their wings, not because they hum songs.

In the corpora

• Hummingbirds migrate on their own, flying amazing distances; they do not ride on geese.
• A hummingbird can hover by beating its wings dozens of times a second.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hummingbird» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.