Trochilus Definition

träkiləs
trochili
noun
Any of various Old World birds, esp. warblers.
Webster's New World
Any of certain hummingbirds.
Webster's New World

(architecture) An annular moulding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; a scotia.

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pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae "” small hummingbirds of Jamaica.

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Other Word Forms of Trochilus

Noun

Singular:
trochilus
Plural:
trochiluses

Origin of Trochilus

  • Latin trochilus (“a kind of small bird"), from Ancient Greek [script?], to run.

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Trochilus Sentence Examples

  • Did., 1898) compares the "trochilus" (Gr.

  • Willow warbler phylloscopus trochilus Only single birds seen at Kitchener's Island and by the boat on 24 th March.

  • It was only when, after a close examination of the sternal apparatus of one hundred and thirty species, which he carefully described, that he arrived (pp. 177-183) at the conclusion - astonishing to us who know of L'Herminier's previous results - that the sternum of birds cannot be used as a help to their classification on account of the egregious anomalies that would follow the proceeding - such anomalies, for instance, as the separation of Cypselus from Hirundo and its alliance with Trochilus, and the grouping of Hirundo and Fringilla together.

  • Willow warbler phylloscopus trochilus Only single birds seen at Kitchener 's Island and by the boat on 24 th March.

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