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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.