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Meaning of trochil | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

trochilics trochilid trochilidist trochilos trochilus trochin