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ǁ Colibri. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. ǁ Colibri [a. Sp. and F. colibri, according to statements in Littré orig. the Carib name. A kind of humming-bird.

1 [1715.  Kersey, Colibus, the Humming-bird, which is no bigger than a large Fly; yet makes a Noise like a Whirlwind. Hence in Bailey.]

2 1740.  Hist. Jamaica, 333. As to Birds … the most famous is the Colibry or Humming-bird.

3 1812.  Smellie, trans. Buffon’s Nat. Hist., XVI. 382. M. de la Condamine never saw Colibris more numerous than in the gardens of Quito.

4 1840.  Browning, Sordello, III. 347. Buzz of colibri.

5 1855.  Kingsley, Westw. Ho! II. ix. 254. ‘Look, Frank, that’s a colibri. You’ve heard of colibris?’
  Frank looked at the living gem, which hung, loud humming, over some fantastic bloom.

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