Obs. [Sp., f. zumbar to hum.] A hummingbird of S. America.
1760–72. J. Adams, trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy., VI. viii. (ed. 3), I. 436. Partridges, condors, and zumbadores or hummers.
1764. Grainger, Sugar Cane, I. 641. The swift-wing’d zumbadore The mountain desert startled with his hum.
