Definition of passerine Passerine
pas•ser•ine
We found 8 definitions of passerine from 5 different sources.
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What does passerine mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: passerines |
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| passerine - 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 | ||
| passeriform bird | ||
| bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings | ||
| 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 | ||
| true sparrow, sparrow any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects | ||
| lyrebird Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape | ||
| scrub-bird, scrub bird, scrubbird small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub | ||
| broadbill small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | ||
| tyrannid a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni | ||
Adjective |
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| passerine - relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | ||
| nonpasserine relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds | ||
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Wiktionary 
- passerine (Noun)
Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species. - passerine (Adjective)
Of, or relating to a passerine or perching bird .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- passerine (a.)
Of or pertaining to the Passeres. - passerine (n.)
One of the Passeres.
Wikipedia 
- A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.
Part of speech
🔤- passerine, noun, singular of passerines.
