English Explanatory Dictionary

rubythroat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.
  2. A ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).
  3. A Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) or white-tailed rubythroat (Calliope pectoralis),of genus Calliope (syn. Luscinia).
  4. A ruby-throated bulbul (Rubigula dispar, syn. Pycnonotus dispar).

Word forms

rubythroat rubythroats

Etymology

From ruby + throat.

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