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Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

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  1. n. Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
  2. Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.
  3. Any one of several species of brilliant South American hummingbirds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeplyforked tails; -- called also firetail.
  4. n. the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)