Definition of Trochil

1. n. The crocodile bird.

Definition of Trochil

1. Noun. (zoology) The crocodile bird. ¹

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Definition of Trochil

1. an African bird [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trochil

1. The crocodile bird. "The crocodile . . . Opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding." (Sir T. Herbert) Origin: Cf. F. Trochile. See Trochilus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trochil

trochanteric fossa
trochanteric syndrome
trochanterplasty
trochanters
trochantin
trochantine
trochantines
trochantinian
trochar
trochars
troche
trochee
trochees
troches
trochi
trochil (current term)
trochili
trochilic
trochilics
trochilidine
trochilidist
trochilidists
trochilos
trochils
trochilus
troching
trochings
trochisci
trochiscus
trochisk

Literary usage of Trochil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"HUMMINGBIRDS. GENUS EUGENES GOULD. Eugenes GOULD, Monogr. trochil., II, 1856, pi. 59. Type, by monotypy, trochilus fulgens SWAINSON. ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"This appellation still remains as the French " Oiseau-mouche," that of trochil-us having been borrowed from Pliny by Barrere, who believed Hummingbirds to ..."

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