rubythroat

English

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Etymology

ruby +‎ throat

Noun

rubythroat (plural rubythroats)

  1. Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.
    1. Archilochus colubris, the ruby-throated hummingbird.
    2. Two species of genus Luscinia, Luscinia calliope, the Siberian rubythroat, and Luscinia pectoralis, the white-tailed rubythroat.
    3. Pycnonotus dispar, the ruby-throated bulbul.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rubythroat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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