Meaning of PASSERINE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pasurin
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- [n] perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless
- [adj] relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds
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| | Synonyms: | | passeriform bird |
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| | See Also: | | bird, broadbill, jenny wren, lyrebird, order Passeriformes, oscine, oscine bird, Passeriformes, scrub bird, scrubbird, sparrow, true sparrow, tyrannid, wren | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pas"ser*ine\, a. [L. passerinus, fr. passer a
sparrow.] (Zo["o]l.)
Of or pertaining to the Passeres.
The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes
people the fruit trees. --Sydney
Smith.
\Pas"ser*ine\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of the Passeres.
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