Vegetable Hummingbird (Noun)
Meaning
A softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The Calliandra is home to many insects and is a favorite of the vegetable hummingbird due to its large, showy clusters of flowers.
- In our tropical garden, we carefully planted Calliandra trees as an attempt to attract vegetable hummingbirds.
- Sometimes you can observe the vegetable hummingbird perched gently on a Calliandra branch.
- A variety of animals and birds including the lovely vegetable hummingbird feed off the red flowers that sprout from the top of the Calliandra tree.
- After planting Calliandra for a while, we finally got a glimpse of the elusive vegetable hummingbird we had been searching for.