trochil

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

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

trochils (plural)

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