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A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region. [Sp. Amer.]

A trochaic verse or measure. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.

Resembling a wheel. Trochal disk (Zoöl.), the cephalic disk of a rotifer. It is usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.

Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.

The second joint of the leg of an insect, -- often united with the coxa.

See Trocar.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

A kind of chætopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble.

A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Between the trochanters of the femur.

Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvæ of certain marine annelids.

An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.

Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvæ of certain annelids.

Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. Hadley. Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies. W. W. Goodwin.