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Definition & Meaning | English word RUMPS
RUMPS
Definitions of RUMPS
- plural of rump.
- plural of Rump.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using RUMPS in a Sentence
- The Greenland race is a very large, pale bird, with the male sometimes described as a "snowball", but both forms are pale with small beaks, white rumps and often more yellow than grey-brown tones in their plumage.
- Dominant males have the most vibrant colors and fattest flanks and rumps, and have the most success siring young.
- Padded cushions, historically called "bum rolls," "bearers," and "cork rumps," were among the many methods popular in Europe.
- Referred to by some as "the Chippendales of his day," Ducrow and his sons would dress in "fleshings" (flesh-coloured body stockings) to perform physique poses called plastiques, while standing upon the rumps of white stallions cantering round the amphitheatre.
- Male parrotlets also have blue streaks behind the eyes which is often referred to as "eyeshadow;" as well as blue rumps.
- Mexican parrotlets exhibit sexual dimorphism: males have light turquoise feathers along the leading edges of their wings and on their rumps and primaries, secondaries, and coverts; females are entirely yellow-green and slightly duller.
- Females' rumps are the same color as their back and their tail is olivaceous with a black band near the end of the feathers.
- Adults have black heads and breastbands, greenish-black upperparts, with a maroon half-collar and bright maroon rumps and uppertail coverts (flight feathers on the tail and wing).
- Turquoise-winged parrotlets are sexually dimorphic: males have bright turquoise feathers on their lower backs and rumps, and have purple-blue underwing coverts and axillaries.
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