rubythroat

English

Archilochus colubris

Calliope calliope

Rubigula dispar

Etymology

ruby +‎ throat

Noun

rubythroat (plural rubythroats)

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 Calliope (syn. Luscinia), Calliope calliope, the Siberian rubythroat, and Calliope pectoralis, the white-tailed rubythroat.
3. Rubigula dispar (syn. Pycnonotus dispar), the ruby-throated bulbul.

References

Ruby-throated hummingbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Archilochus colubris on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Archilochus colubris on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Calliope (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Calliope on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Calliope (genus) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Rubigula dispar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Pycnonotus dispar on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Pycnonotus dispar on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.