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violetear

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vi-o-letear
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the American hummingbirds of the genus Colibri, whose males have a violet-blue patch running back and down from the eye.

Etymology

From violet + ear.

Inflected Forms

violetears (plural) violet-ear (alternative)

Phrases

brown violetear green violetear sparkling violetear white-vented violetear

Questions

What does violetear mean?
Any of the American hummingbirds of the genus Colibri, whose males have a violet-blue patch running back and down from the eye.
Where does violetear come from?
From violet + ear.

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