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- noun (Zoöl.) The crocodile bird, or trochil.
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- noun The
crocodile bird , ortrochil .
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[185] The Greek word for a wren, [Greek: trochilos], is derived from the same root as [Greek: trechein], to run.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Then, excluding the plinth, let the rest be divided into four parts, and of these let one fourth constitute the upper torus, and let the other three be divided equally, one part composing the lower torus, and the other, with its fillets, the scotia, which the Greeks call [Greek: trochilos].
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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