hummers
- plural of hummer.
Example Sentences
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Calscape, the California Native Plant Society’s plant database, says there is no better single plant than California fuchsias for attracting hummers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
These strategies have not been reported before, likely because hummers maneuver too quickly for the human eye to see.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Those are the flowers where photographers want to catch the hummers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2022
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.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2022
There were many hummers which can stand still in the air and look like bits of polished stone and have long tongues to sip honey with.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
