rufous hummingbird

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noun

a reddish-brown hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, of western North America.

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How to use rufous hummingbird in a sentence

Take Huitzilopochtli, the typically tongue-twisting Aztec name of an old hummingbird god.
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