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A small Egyptian bird (not certainly identified) said by the ancients to pick the teeth of the crocodile. Also allusively (in quot. 1856 attributive).
= trochilus, n.1 1.
One who picks the teeth; in first quot. used of a bird which was fabled to pick the teeth of the crocodile; in second quot. with allusion to this.
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