Blue-breasted bee-eater characteristics. It has a blue stripe over the black eye stripe, an orange-red iris, a white cheek and a bright yellow throat. Furthermore, like many members of the Meropidae family, they have a wide chest band. Its chest band is made up of two colours, a deep purple-blue gorget above a chestnut coloured breastband . Juveniles of the blue-breasted bee-eater have buff flanks and belly. They have a yellow-buff chin that leads to a light green mottled breast. Juveniles also completely lack a chest band. The little bee-eaters and the cinnamon-chested bee-eater are both very similar to the blue-breasted bee-eater.
Blue–green distinction in language plant hues, and grey (like the sea); other shades of green would be referred to in Modern Irish as "uaine" or "uaithne", while "liath" is grey proper (like a stone). Scottish Gaelic uses the term "uaine" for "green". However, the dividing line between it and "gorm" is somewhat different than between the English "green" and "blue", with "uaine" signifying a light green or yellow-green, and "gorm" extending from dark blue (what in English might be navy blue) to include the dark green or blue-green of vegetation. Grass, for instance, is "gorm", rather than "uaine". In addition, "liath" covers a range