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- English Word Trochilus Definition A genus of humming birds. It Formerly included all the known species.
- English Word Trochilus Definition Any one of several species of wrens and kinglets.
- English Word Trochilus Definition The crocodile bird.
- English Word Trochilus Definition An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia.
- English Word Troching Definition One of the small branches of a stag's antler.
- English Word Trochisci Definition of Trochiscus
- English Word Trochiscus Definition A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.
- English Word Trochisk Definition See Trochiscus.
- English Word Trochite Definition A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
- English Word Trochlea Definition A pulley.
- English Word Trochlea Definition A pulley, or a structure resembling a pulley; as, the trochlea, or pulleylike end, of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna; or the trochlea, or fibrous ring, in the upper part of the orbit, through which the superior oblique, or trochlear, muscle of the eye passes.
- English Word Trochlear Definition Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye.
- English Word Trochleary Definition Pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; trochlear; as, the trochleary, or trochlear, nerve.
- English Word Trochoid Definition The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.
- English Word Trochoid Definition Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.
- English Word Trochoid Definition Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.
- English Word Trochoid Definition Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae.
- English Word Trochoidal Definition Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid.
- English Word Trochoidal Definition See Trochoid, a.
- English Word Trochometer Definition A contrivance for computing the revolutions of a wheel; an odometer.
- English Word Trochosphere Definition A young larval form of many annelids, mollusks, and bryozoans, in which a circle of cilia is developed around the anterior end.
- English Word Trochus Definition Any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells belonging to Trochus and many allied genera of the family Trochidae. Some of the species are called also topshells.
- English Word Troco Definition An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
- English Word Trod Definition imp. & p. p. of Tread.
- English Word Trod Definition of Tread
- English Word Trod Definition of Tread
- English Word Trodden Definition of Tread
- English Word Trodden Definition p. p. of Tread.
- English Word Trode Definition imp. of Tread.
- English Word Trode Definition Tread; footing.