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Definition of motmot in English: motmotnoun ˈmɒtmɒtˈmätmät A tree-dwelling tropical American bird with colourful plumage, typically having two long racket-shaped tail feathers. 翠鴗 Family Momotidae: several genera and species, in particular the widespread blue-crowned motmot (Momotus momota) Example sentencesExamples - On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogons, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
- You didn't think that toucans and motmots were just going to fly over your New Jersey home, did you?
- Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
- By the early 1990s, he was noticing that blue-crowned motmots, brown jays, golden-crowned warblers and other birds of drier, lower-elevation rain forests had begun nesting in his study area.
- Oligocene fossils of todies and motmots from Wyoming and France, for example, indicate that the current ranges of these two groups are relictual.
- But a dam upriver would have caused greater flooding in the Raspaculo, where the threatened keel-billed motmot, a bright-green songbird, nests.
OriginMid 19th century: from Latin American Spanish, of imitative origin. Definition of motmot in US English: motmotnounˈmätmät A tree-dwelling tropical American bird with colourful plumage, typically having two long racket-shaped tail feathers. 翠鴗 Family Momotidae: several genera and species, in particular the widespread blue-crowned motmot (Momotus momota) Example sentencesExamples - On the premises were ten species of hummingbirds, slaty-tailed trogons, rufous and broad-billed motmots, collared aricaris.
- Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
- You didn't think that toucans and motmots were just going to fly over your New Jersey home, did you?
- But a dam upriver would have caused greater flooding in the Raspaculo, where the threatened keel-billed motmot, a bright-green songbird, nests.
- Oligocene fossils of todies and motmots from Wyoming and France, for example, indicate that the current ranges of these two groups are relictual.
- By the early 1990s, he was noticing that blue-crowned motmots, brown jays, golden-crowned warblers and other birds of drier, lower-elevation rain forests had begun nesting in his study area.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Latin American Spanish, of imitative origin. |