heterodactylae love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In ornithology, a group of picarian birds, distinguished from all other zygodactyl birds by having the second instead of the fourth toe reversed; the trogons, of the family Trogonidæ, considered as a superfamily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of birds including the trogons.

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