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| tro·gon [ trṓ gòn ] (plural tro·gons) |
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brightly colored tropical bird: a tree-dwelling bird with a short hooked beak, a long tail, and brightly colored feathers. Native to: tropics, subtropics. Family Trogonidae.
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| [Late 18th century. < modern Latin< Greek trōgein "gnaw," because the bird chews its nest hole out of rotten wood or termites' nests] |
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