trochil

词形变化

trochils 复数 trochils

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.

    1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique., 2. ed. revised and enlarged. The crocodile […] opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.

词源

From Latin trochilus (“a small bird”, probably applied to a wren).

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