| 单词 | hummingbird |
| 释义 | hummingbird noun[C] uk/ˈhʌm.ɪŋ.bɜːd/us/ˈhʌm.ɪŋ.bɝːd/a verysmall,brightlycolouredbirdwith along,thinbeak, whosewingsmoveveryfastand make ahummingnoise 蜂鸟 elmvilla/E+/GettyImages Other wild birds
hummingbird| American Dictionaryhummingbird noun[C] us/ˈhʌm·ɪŋˌbɜrd/a verysmall,brightlycoloredbirdwith alongbeakthat it uses todrinknectar(=sweetliquid)fromflowers Examplesofhummingbirdhummingbird But do we really know enough about whale andhummingbirdbehavior to legitimately come to this conclusion? From theCambridge English Corpus The maintenance of a costly flowering strategy is probably necessary to guarantee the presence of hummingbirds in the area, the main pollinators. From theCambridge English Corpus It has apical inflorescences, exposed in natural forest corridors, thereby facilitating discovery by the territorial and non-territorial hummingbirds that use the corridors as foraging paths. From theCambridge English Corpus Each month, we estimated the species richness of thehummingbirdcommunity based on the censuses, observations at flowering bromeliads, and opportunistic records. From theCambridge English Corpus Coadapted competitors: the flowering seasons ofhummingbird-pollinated plants in a tropical forest. From theCambridge English Corpus Around 10-12 foraging bouts h-1 were performed, lasting approximately 90-120 s, during which hummingbirds visited 14.6 + 8.3 flowers from 4.67 + 1.95 plants. From theCambridge English Corpus Lower fruit production by flowers that were experimentally rendered rigid may be due to fewer and shorter visits by short-billed hummingbirds. From theCambridge English Corpus Both sing (thehummingbirdadds a courtship dance), defend territories and mates, raise young, and migrate seasonally for long distances. From theCambridge English Corpus We performed two censuses per monthly field trip to estimatehummingbirdabundance. From theCambridge English Corpus There is a morphological correspondence between the length ofhummingbirdbills and the length of the corollas in ornithophilous flowers. From theCambridge English Corpus However, we observed that hummingbirds with much shorter bills were also able to extract nectar and pollinate the flowers. From theCambridge English Corpus The same procedure was used to calculate the similarity of thehummingbirdspecies according to the bromeliads used by each species. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the most common motif by far on the picks-and the only motif to appear on provenienced picks-is avian, and most frequently ahummingbird. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition, hummingbirds were associated with love and lovemaking. From theCambridge English Corpus Around this time of the year, hummingbirds were rarely seen, while flowers continued to be visited by insects. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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