Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sappho \Sap"pho\, n. [See {Sapphic}.] (Zo["o]l.)
   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}.

Source : WordNet®

Sappho
     n : the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only
         fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century
         BC)