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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Troglodytidae — a number of songbirds, including the wren.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodutēs, "one who dwells in holes"), from τρώγλη (trōglē, "hole") + δύω (duō, "I get into")

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Examples

  • "The name Troglodytes is given to various tribes of men, but those best known and celebrated under this name once inhabited the shores of the Red Sea, both on the Arabian and the Egyptian side.

    A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

  • Thus the Chimpanzee is called Troglodytes niger; it is the species Niger of the genus Troglodytes which genus contains also another species, namely, the Gorilla.

    The Common Frog 1874

  • The Troglodytes were a people who systematically violated their Contracts, and so perished utterly.

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • The band were originally called The Troglodytes (troglodyte meaning "caveman").

    Features from Minnesota Public Radio 2010

  • (literally!) group called the "Troglodytes" - eaters of corn, vilified by the populace, and pursued by the police.

    NAACHGAANA 2008

  • (literally!) group called the "Troglodytes" - eaters of corn, vilified by the populace, and pursued by the police.

    NAACHGAANA 2008

  • (literally!) group called the "Troglodytes" - eaters of corn, vilified by the populace, and pursued by the police.

    NAACHGAANA 2008

  • His colleague, Dr. Thomas Savage, and Professor Jeffries Wyman called the new animal by the old name of gorilla, suffixing it to the "Troglodytes" which Geoffrey de Saint-Hilaire, reviving Linnaeus, had proposed in 1812.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Since arriving in Potya from Go Ahead Troglodytes of Friesland, the ball juggling man-thing from the land of the light fandango has set the republic alight with his mix of flair, pace and badly wired electrical appliances.

    Helium-sniffing Simeon Troll goes for broke in the mad world of Potya Harry Pearson 2010

  • Abramoff called these clients “Troglodytes … lower forms of existence … plain stupid … morons.”

    HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010

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