Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a ruby gorget of feathers like metallic scales, as a humming-bird.

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Examples

  • And I passed what I took at a glance to be a large species of white-backed dragonfly hovering over some flowers that it dawned on me later could have been a ruby-throated hummingbird.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • Tracy, I saw your photograph of the ruby-throated hummingbird!!

    Scenes of Home 2008

  • (I like to garnish the plates with ruby-throated nasturtium blossoms from the garden ... makes it even more beautiful!)

    Neil Zevnik: Preventive Noshing: Five Favorite Foods 2010

  • Once Mary Birney, a former pharmacy technician with University of Pennsylvania, treated an adult ruby-throated hummingbird who had been trapped in a garage and gotten stuck in spilled polyurethane.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • The ruby-throated hummingbird prepares for its annual 800km non-stop flight across the Gulf of Mexico, by an intense pre-flight eating binge which increases its body weight by about 50%.

    Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species 2008

  • And I passed what I took at a glance to be a large species of white-backed dragonfly hovering over some flowers that it dawned on me later could have been a ruby-throated hummingbird.

    One for the birds 2008

  • (I like to garnish the plates with ruby-throated nasturtium blossoms from the garden ... makes it even more beautiful!)

    Neil Zevnik: Preventive Noshing: Five Favorite Foods 2010

  • The ruby-throated hummingbird prepares for its annual 800km non-stop flight across the Gulf of Mexico, by an intense pre-flight eating binge which increases its body weight by about 50%.

    Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species 2008

  • And unlike in the East, with its single hummingbird species, the ruby-throated, the San Francisco Bay Area hosts four hummingbird species.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Of the 20-odd bird species present in mature forest, the most common are the pine warbler, cardinal, summer tanager, Carolina wren, ruby-throated hummingbird, blue jay, hooded warbler, eastern towhee, and tufted titmouse.

    Southeastern Mixed Forest Province (Bailey) 2009

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