trochil

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

trochils plural

词源

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