Associations to the word «Apodiformes»

Wiktionary

APODIFORMES, proper noun. A taxonomic order within the subclass Neognathae   — the swifts, tree swifts and formerly, the hummingbirds.

Dictionary definition

APODIFORMES, noun. Swifts; hummingbirds.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope