NOUN
- tropical American insectivorous bird having a long sharp bill and iridescent green or bronze plumage
How To Use jacamar In A Sentence
- This area is home to several endangered and endemic birds, including the white-necked parakeet, coppery-chested jacamar, and bicoloured antvireo. Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
- Hiring a guide is a good idea, since trained eyes will point out more rufous-tailed jacamars and blue-crowned mot-mots than you'd ever spot on your own.
- A bird called jacamar is often taken for a kingfisher, but it has no relationship to that tribe. Wanderings in South America
- “That must be a jacamar,” said Herbert, trying to get nearer. The Mysterious Island
- Saturday, after successfully spelling such words as octogenary, mitriform, bellicose, jacamar and divulgence, Aishwarya won the 17th annual Regional Spelling Bee sponsored by The State Journal-Register in cooperation with the Sangamon County Regional Superintendent of Schools. The State Journal-Register Home RSS
- This area is home to several endangered and endemic birds, including the white-necked parakeet, coppery-chested jacamar, and bicoloured antvireo. Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
- Lories are better food than the jacamar, the flesh of which is rather tough, but it was difficult to persuade The Mysterious Island
- It was indeed a jacamar, of which the plumage shines with a metallic luster. The Mysterious Island
- Just then, a stone cleverly thrown by the boy, struck the creature on the wing, but the blow did not disable it, and the jacamar ran off and disappeared in an instant. The Mysterious Island
- Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies.