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trochil en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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.

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