trainbearer

Black-tailed trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae)

Meaning

Noun

One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
Either of two species of long-tailed hummingbirds in the genus Lesbia, found in tropical South America.

Origin

train + bearer

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