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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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