Lexicographical Neighbors of Colibris
Literary usage of Colibris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"There are, however, two in the rollers, the king-fishers, and the bee-eaters,
and none in the martinets and the colibris. Our first division shall be ..."
2. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Some are emerald green, some vivid violet, others yellow with a crimson wing,
and rivalling the colibris by the metallic lustre of their plumage, ..."
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