troglodytes
nounIn ornithology: A genus of wrens, type of the family Troglodytidae, based by Vieillot in 1807 on T. aëdon.
nounIn the form Troglodites, a Linnean name (1744) of humming-birds, later (1748–66) called
In mammalogy, a genus of anthropoid apes, instituted by Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire after 1807, containing the chimpanzee, T. niger, and the gorilla, T. gorilla.
nounA genus of apes including the chimpanzee.
nounA genus of singing birds including the common wrens.
nounPlural form of
type genus of the Troglodytidae
