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Ensifera

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Etymology 1

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Ensifera ensifera (sword-billed hummingbird)

From Latin ēnsifera (sword-bearing), referring to the blade-like bill.

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Ensifera f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – sword-billed hummingbird, of Andean South America.
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Etymology 2

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ovipositor of a long-horned grasshopper (suborder Ensifera)

From Latin ēnsifera (sword-bearing), referring to the blade-like ovipositor.

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Ensifera

  1. A taxonomic suborder within the order Orthoptera – crickets, katydids and wetas.

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