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Definition of Rubythroats
1. rubythroat [n] - See also: rubythroat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubythroats
Literary usage of Rubythroats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"It is not, however, among flowers that the Chocorua rubythroats are happiest or
most frequently seen. Were some one to ask me to find a humming bird quickly ..."
2. The Garden Book of California by Belle Sumner Angier (1906)
"porch at the Arlington, in Santa Barbara, I have sometimes counted fifteen or
twenty rubythroats darting here and there, or out into the pretty garden where ..."
3. The Garden Book of California by Belle Sumner Angier (1906)
"porch at the Arlington, in Santa Barbara, I have sometimes counted fifteen or
twenty rubythroats darting here and there, or out into the pretty garden where ..."
4. The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America (1921)
"Like Scarlet Tanagers, rubythroats suggest the tropics and although the family
numbers nearly five hundred species this bird is the only one venturing into ..."
5. Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Warner Morley (1897)
"He is partial to the honey of the touch-me-not, and wherever it grows in abundance
you will be sure to see the rubythroats darting about. ..."
6. Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Warner Morley (1897)
"He is partial to the honey of the touch-me-not, and wherever it grows in abundance
you will be sure to see the rubythroats darting about. ..."
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