Definition of oscines Oscines
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NounSingular: oscine |
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| oscines - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds | ||
| suborder Oscines, Passeres, suborder Passeres | ||
| animal order the order of animals | ||
| order passeriformes, passeriformes largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres | ||
| oscine, oscine bird passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus | ||
| family meliphagidae, meliphagidae honey eaters | ||
| family prunellidae, prunellidae hedge sparrow | ||
| alaudidae, family alaudidae larks | ||
| family motacillidae, motacillidae pipits and wagtails | ||
| family fringillidae, fringillidae finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings | ||
| coerebidae, dacninae, family coerebidae, family dacninae the honeycreepers | ||
| family passeridae, passeridae true sparrows: Old world birds formerly considered weaverbirds | ||
| family ploceidae, ploceidae weaverbirds | ||
| drepanididae, family drepanididae Hawaiian honeycreepers | ||
| family muscicapidae, muscicapidae Old World (true) flycatchers | ||
| family turdidae, turdidae thrushes; in some classifications considered a subfamily (Turdinae) of the family Muscicapidae | ||
| family sylviidae, sylviidae in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers | ||
| family timaliidae, timaliidae babblers | ||
| family parulidae, parulidae New World warblers | ||
| family paradisaeidae, paradisaeidae birds of paradise | ||
| family icteridae, icteridae American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks | ||
| family oriolidae, oriolidae Old World orioles | ||
| family sturnidae, sturnidae Old World starlings | ||
| corvidae, family corvidae crow; raven; rook; jackdaw; chough; magpie; jay | ||
| cracticidae, family cracticidae Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae | ||
| family mimidae, mimidae sometimes considered a subfamily of Troglodytidae: mockingbirds; catbirds; thrashers | ||
| acanthisittidae, family acanthisittidae, family xenicidae, xenicidae alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens | ||
| certhiidae, family certhiidae creepers | ||
| family sittidae, sittidae nuthatches | ||
| family paridae, paridae titmice and chickadees | ||
| family irenidae, irenidae a family of birds of the suborder Oscines | ||
| family hirundinidae, hirundinidae swallows and martins | ||
| artamidae, family artamidae wood swallows | ||
| family thraupidae, thraupidae tanagers | ||
| family laniidae, laniidae shrikes | ||
| family ptilonorhynchidae, ptilonorhynchidae bowerbirds | ||
| cinclidae, family cinclidae water ouzels | ||
| family vireonidae, vireonidae small insectivorous American songbirds | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- oscines (n. pl.)
Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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oscines
os′si-nēz, n.pl. a sub-order of birds of the order Passeres.—adj. Os′cine—also n. [L. oscen, oscinis, a singing-bird.]
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🔤- oscines, noun, singular of oscineses / oscinesses.
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