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Noun: vegetable hummingbird
  1. A softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies
    "The vegetable hummingbird attracts actual hummingbirds to Florida gardens";
    - scarlet wisteria tree, Sesbania grandiflora

Derived forms: vegetable hummingbirds

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Sesbania

Encyclopedia: Vegetable hummingbird