trochilidine
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Trochilidae (family name).
Adjective
[edit]trochilidine (comparative more trochilidine, superlative most trochilidine)
- (ornithology, rare) Of, or pertaining to hummingbirds.
- 1892, Robert Ridgway, THE HUMMING BIRDS.[1], page 261:
- Trochilidine literature has never entirely recovered from its effect.