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Definition of trogon in English: trogonnoun ˈtrəʊɡɒnˈtrōɡän A bird of tropical American forests, with a long tail and brilliantly coloured plumage. 咬鹃 Family Trogonidae: several genera, in particular Trogon, and many species; the quetzals also belong to this family Example sentencesExamples - Here we encountered our first hornbills of the trip, in addition to trogons and a most special coral-billed ground-cuckoo.
- The small island was alive with wildlife: sloths, tapirs, peccaries, howler monkeys, tamarins, ocelots, blue - headed parrots, trogons and oropendolas, birds that make noises like water dropping on water.
- On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogon, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
- We also saw a citreoline trogon, a gorgeous bird with a predominantly yellow underside.
- Time and again he provoked a response, be it from a Cuban parrot, a Cuban pygmy owl, a Cuban trogon or a Cuban red-bellied woodpecker.
OriginLate 18th century: from modern Latin, from Greek trōgōn, from trōgein 'gnaw'. Definition of trogon in US English: trogonnounˈtrōɡän A bird of tropical American forests, with a long tail and brilliantly colored plumage. 咬鹃 Family Trogonidae: several genera, in particular Trogon, and many species; the quetzals also belong to this family Example sentencesExamples - On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogon, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
- Time and again he provoked a response, be it from a Cuban parrot, a Cuban pygmy owl, a Cuban trogon or a Cuban red-bellied woodpecker.
- We also saw a citreoline trogon, a gorgeous bird with a predominantly yellow underside.
- The small island was alive with wildlife: sloths, tapirs, peccaries, howler monkeys, tamarins, ocelots, blue - headed parrots, trogons and oropendolas, birds that make noises like water dropping on water.
- Here we encountered our first hornbills of the trip, in addition to trogons and a most special coral-billed ground-cuckoo.
OriginLate 18th century: from modern Latin, from Greek trōgōn, from trōgein ‘gnaw’. |