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Trochilus   Listen
noun
Trochilus  n.  (pl. trochili)  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.
(b)
Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets. (Obs.)
(c)
The crocodile bird.
2.
(Arch.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; called also scotia.





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"Trochilus" Quotes from Famous Books



... not space to describe one-tenth part of those wonderful, bright, and small specimens of the feathered tribe which inhabit the mountains for their entire length. Darwin found one of the species—the Trochilus forficatus—flying about amid the snow-storms in the forests of Tierra del Fuego; while in the wooded island of Chiloe, which has an extremely humid climate, he saw it skipping from side to side amid ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston


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