Sappho n. : Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

Example:
Why was Sappho's work systematically destroyed by later Christian censors?

Taxonomy
Sappho, fragments, poetry, poem, Sappho and Alcaeus, translation, Greek text, Greek, poets, Reading Sappho, English, Sappho Is Burning, scholars, Cleïs, frr, daughter, Doricha, papyrus.

Defination from the web:
Sappho addresses Cleïs, saying that she has no way of obtaining a decorated headband for her. ... In his Heroides, Ovid has Sappho lament that, "Six birthdays of mine had passed when the bones of my parent, gathered from the pyre, drank before ...