Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various colorful tropical or subtropical birds of the family Trogonidae, including the quetzals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of birds, type of the family Trogonidæ, formerly conterminous with the same, subsequently variously restricted.
- noun [lowercase] Any bird of the genus Trogon in a broad sense, as a curucui or quetzal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family
Trogonidæ . They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
species ofbird , most of which live inCentral andSouth America , havecolorful feathers , andnest in holes in trees.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A trogon was the next, a thickly-feathered soft-looking bird, yoke-toed like a cuckoo, and bearing great resemblance in shape to the nightjar of the English woods, but wonderfully different in plumage; for, whereas the latter is of a soft blending of greys and browns, like the wings of some woodland moths, this trogon's back was of a cinnamon brown, and its breast of a light rosy-scarlet blending off into white crossed with fine dark-pencilled stripes.
The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870
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A trogon, its cherry red neck gleaming against a body of emerald green, crawls up the side of a picture frame, followed by a chattering monkey.
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A trogon, its cherry red neck gleaming against a body of emerald green, crawls up the side of a picture frame, followed by a chattering monkey.
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Other species with an Afromontane distribution include bar-tailed trogon (Apaloderma vittatum), scarce swift (Schoutedenapus myioptilus), orange thrush (Zoothera gurneyi) and African black swift (Apus barbatus sladeniae).
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Birders plan their vacations around the northern extent of the trogon (Chiricauhuas) or where to see 47 varieties of hummingbirds (Ramsey Canyon).
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Once more, we wound up in a junglelike forest, where the only thing we saw of note was a gorgeous trogon with a luminous green body and a red throat, a bird so rare that it was the first one Stanton had ever seen, though he'd lived all his life in Africa.
Shadows in the Bush, Part II: Phil Caputo Hunts African Cape Buffalo in Tanzania 2005
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The bird fauna here is very rich, 707 species, and includes species such as Ward's trogon (Harpactes wardi) (table 2).
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My favorites were the toco toucan, motmot, currasows, Yucatan jay, cinnamon-colored cuckoo, and pileated woodpecker and violaceous trogon (a relative of the resplendent quetzal).
Studying Nature in Mexico is an Unforgettable Adventure 2007
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The thick-forested mountains delivered the call of the trogon, but no sighting.
Pátzcuaro 2004
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The thick-forested mountains delivered the call of the trogon, but no sighting.
Pátzcuaro 2004
yarb commented on the word trogon
Is this the best bird name ever? Sounds like a supervillain, a nemesis, a destroyer of worlds!
n.b. so good reesetee listed it twice!
May 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word trogon
Isn't it? The full name of one of these is Elegant Trogon, which I think is a very fine name to have.
It's on two of my lists because the species occurs in North America as well as elsewhere in the world. :-)
May 12, 2008