Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a ruby gorget of feathers like metallic scales, as a humming-bird.
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Examples
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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
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Tracy, I saw your photograph of the ruby-throated hummingbird!!
Scenes of Home 2008
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(I like to garnish the plates with ruby-throated nasturtium blossoms from the garden ... makes it even more beautiful!)
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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
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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
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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
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(I like to garnish the plates with ruby-throated nasturtium blossoms from the garden ... makes it even more beautiful!)
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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
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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
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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.
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