Trochil


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Tro´chil


n.1.(Zool.) The crocodile bird.
The crocodile . . . opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.
- Sir T. Herbert.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.