Chicken vs. Hummingbird — What's the Difference?

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a subspecies of the red junglefowl, is a type of domesticated fowl, originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and younger male may be called a cockerel.

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 360 species, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species is found in the tropics.

A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one

Any of numerous birds of the family Trochilidae found throughout the Americas, usually very small in size and having brilliant iridescent plumage, a long slender bill, and wings capable of beating very rapidly, thereby enabling the bird to hover.

A game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser

Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

Cowardly

Any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers, and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise; the wings are specialized for hovering flight, but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat.

Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight

A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.

Any of various similar or related birds.

The flesh of the chicken, used as food.

(Slang) A coward.

Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.

Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.

Afraid; cowardly.

To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve

(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.

A coward.

A young or inexperienced person.

A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

The game of dare.

A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

 A kilogram of cocaine.

Plural of chick

(informal) Cowardly.

(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.

The flesh of a chicken used for food

A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Easily frightened