passerine

Adjective
  1. Relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds (synset 302785836)
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 (synset 101527000)
    is a type of: bird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
    subtypes:
    • oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
    • sparrow, true 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
    • jenny wren, wren - any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
    belongs to: 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
    same as: passeriform bird

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