rubythroat
English
Etymology
Noun
rubythroat (plural rubythroats)
- Any of several species of birds, the males having a brilliant patch of metallic red on the throat.
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., the ruby-throated hummingbird.
- Two species of genus Luscinia, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., the Siberian rubythroat, and Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., the white-tailed rubythroat.
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 780: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)