(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
(n.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.