English

jewelfront

From jewel + front.

A compound of jewel + front

Middle English juel ‘an item of jewelry’

English jewel

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Today it means

noun A species of hummingbird, Gould's jewelfront (Heliodoxa aurescens).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / jewelfront