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Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise.

Hawk Moth :: Hawk moth () Any moth of the family Sphingidae, of which there are numerous genera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larvae are large, hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm..

Suctorial :: Suctorial (a.) Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

Ruby :: Ruby (n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.

Bombination :: Bombination (n.) A humming or buzzing.

Sunbird :: Sunbird (n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines)..

Hum :: Hum (v. t.) To express satisfaction with by humming.

Buzz :: Buzz (v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice..

Hummer :: Hummer (n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming..

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Snowcap :: Snowcap (n.) A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

Drone :: Drone (n.) To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound..

Bum :: Bum (v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound..

Sheartail :: Sheartail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Thaumastura having a long forked tail.

Topaz :: Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies..

Trochilidist :: Trochilidist (n.) One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidae..

Sylphid :: Sylph (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus)..

Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition..

Whur :: Whur (v. i.) To make a rough, humming sound, like one who pronounces the letter r with too much force; to whir; to birr..

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