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Passerine Very Common

Passerine has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.

Adjective
1

relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds

2

Of, or relating to a passerine or perching bird.

Related Terms
sand martin white shouldered antshrike robin daw spot backed antshrike malurid cardinal broadmouth great antshrike moustached warbler cisticola triller bachman's warbler flowerpecker willow tit tyrant flycatcher yellowtail neddicky long tailed tit nonpasserine
Antonyms
nonpasserine
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
bird
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
oscine sparrow lyrebird scrubbird broadbill tyrannid wren
Rhyming Words
ine sine vine line mine bine zine wine dine eine pine gine kine rine fine nine tine cine meine reine
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