oiseau-mouche

French

oiseau-mouche.

Etymology

oiseau ("bird") + mouche ("fly (insect)").

Noun

oiseau-mouche m (plural oiseaux-mouches)

hummingbird (any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae).

Synonyms

colibri

Further reading

“oiseau-mouche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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