Sappho

n.

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(Zool.) 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.

Noun

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Sappho - the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)

Lesbian, poetess