trogon

noun

tro·​gon ˈtrō-ˌgän How to pronounce trogon (audio)
: any of numerous nonpasserine tropical birds (family Trogonidae) with brilliant often iridescent plumage

Examples of trogon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Tucson Audubon conservation biologist Jennie MacFarland drove past the mine site without stopping this spring while leading her annual volunteer count of elegant trogons nesting in southern Arizona. Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 8 Sep. 2023 Called Cave Creek Ranch, his business rents rooms and cottages under a canopy of oaks and sycamores in a habitat favoring numerous birds rare to the U.S., including the elegant trogon, a red-white-and-green birder magnet that’s more common in Mexico and Central America. Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023 The plumed paradise birds, the great and little egret, blue-throated and amethyst hummingbirds, the bright green Carolina parakeet, the Toco toucan, the lyre bird, the silver pheasant, the velvet bird, the tanager, the resplendent trogon ... Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023 The elegant trogon is one of the most highly prized sightings of birders who come from around the world for the opportunity. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2022 One song had survived—Suzy’s recording of a violaceous trogon. Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021 There were trogons and toucans, curassows and woodpeckers. National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019 This connectivity allows mammals like jaguars—which have a breeding population in northwest Mexico—and birds like elegant trogons to trek up from Central America. Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019 Meanwhile, birds that spend little or no time in the air, like tropical pittas and trogons, have more spherical eggs. Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017

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Word History

Etymology

New Latin, genus name, from Greek trōgōn, present participle of trōgein to gnaw

First Known Use

1792, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trogon was in 1792

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“Trogon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trogon. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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