Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an oreer of birds including the swifts and hummingbirds.
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- noun swifts; hummingbirds
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The bird nerds at the Since You Asked Institute of Ornithology tell us that hummers, along with swifts, belong to the order apodiformes.
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