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单词 trogon
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Definition of trogon in English:

trogon

noun ˈtrəʊɡɒnˈtrōɡän
  • A bird of tropical American forests, with a long tail and brilliantly coloured plumage.

    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.

Origin

Late 18th century: from modern Latin, from Greek trōgōn, from trōgein 'gnaw'.

 
 

Definition of trogon in US English:

trogon

nounˈtrōɡän
  • A bird of tropical American forests, with a long tail and brilliantly colored plumage.

    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.

Origin

Late 18th century: from modern Latin, from Greek trōgōn, from trōgein ‘gnaw’.

 
 
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