doctorbird

noun

1

: green tody

2

: a curve-billed hummingbird (Sericotes holosericeus) of the West Indies

broadly : any of various West Indian hummingbirds

Word History

Etymology

probably so called from the resemblance of the bill to a surgical needle

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