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Definition of Troopials
1. troopial [n] - See also: troopial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troopials
Literary usage of Troopials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... or Organ-Bird—The Manakins—The Cock of the Rock—The troopials—The Baltimore
Oriole—The ... troopials ..."
2. A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará by William Henry Edwards (1847)
"... —Little Ant-eater—Lakes—Nests of troopials—Sloth—Armadillo—Beetles—Puma—
Monkeys—Indian boy—Description of the mills—Blacks—Sleeping in hammocks— ..."
3. The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida by James McQuade (1885)
"One of these days, when pets shall be joined to pets, when we deliver the
troopials—to which we are a sort of bird-grandfather as it were—to their owners, ..."
4. The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1853)
"The Bob-o-Liuk In July, when the young are reared, these rice-troopials ...
In October, before the rice crop is gathered in, the troopials have made their ..."
5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"The cow troopials have [been] seen in small flocks flitting about within a week.
Along low roads, the song sparrows, bay-wings, Savannah (? ..."
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