trogon

1. 1.

   forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails

   Broaderbird

   Narrowerquetzal

   Part ofTrogonidae

Other forms of trogon

plural

trogons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trogon

What does trogon mean?

trogon means "forest bird of warm regions of the New World having brilliant lustrous plumage and long tails".

How many syllables are in trogon?

trogon has 2 syllables: tro-gon. The stress falls on "tro".

Is trogon a common word?

trogon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.