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Relating to songbirds
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passerine
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Word definitions for passerine in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1776, from Latin passerinus "of a sparrow," from passer "sparrow," possibly of imitative origin. The noun is 1842, from the adjective.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to a passerine or perching bird. n. Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Passerine \Pas"ser*ine\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Passeres.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes , which includes more than half of all bird species. A notable feature of passerines compared to other orders of Aves is the arrangement of their toes, three pointing forward and one back, which facilitates ...
Usage examples of passerine.
But being a Passerine had been better than being a clerk for his uncle.
I owe you greatly for bringing my Passerine where he could spy for me.
Seraph found that the robes obscured enough differences that she had a hard time picking out Toarsen, the only Passerine she knew, from the rest.
If it were, it was a much larger one than the inconsiderable passerine songsters that fluttered about him.
For the use of beginners a brief field color key to genera of some of the common Passerine birds is given in an appendix.
They and their passerine pattern are, so to speak, mutually creative of each other.
Each one of them, without the society of the others organised in this passerine manner, would be something different through and through from what it is.
These expeditions are called hunting, and on feast-days the more athletic citizens urge their horses about the stony deserts in search of a more or less fabulous creature said to resemble a hare and blaze away at the very few things that move, usually a dingy, inedible passerine which I take to be a dwarvish subspecies of Sturnus horridus.