hummer

¹

[huhm-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that hums.

2. Slang.,  humdinger.

3. a hummingbird.

Hummer

²

[huhm-er]

Trademark.

1. a brand of SUV based on the military Humvee.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hummer¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; hum + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Calscape, the California Native Plant Society’s plant database, says there is no better single plant than California fuchsias for attracting hummers.

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These strategies have not been reported before, likely because hummers maneuver too quickly for the human eye to see.

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Each spring I hang a nectar feeder in my backyard, then patiently await the first hummer.

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Those are the flowers where photographers want to catch the hummers.

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The researchers were surprised to find new colors in the hummers, which widened the known avian color gamut by 56% and included rarely seen saturated greens and blues, they report in Communications Biology.

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