Tro-chĭl'ĭ-dæ, n.

n. [See infra.] (Ornith.) A family of tenuirostral, passerine birds, including numerous species, most of which are of small size, and many of them remarkable for the splendor of their plumage; humming-birds. They are natives of the New World, especially the tropical parts of it.

Gould. Baird.