TROGON

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("trogon" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trogon"):

quetzal; quetzal bird (large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage)

Holonyms ("trogon" is a member of...):

family Trogonidae; Trogonidae (coextensive with the order Trogoniformes)