Definitions for passerine

passerine pas·ser·ine

Spelling: [pas-er-in, -uh-rahyn, -uh-reen]
IPA: /ˈpæs ər ɪn, -əˌraɪn, -əˌrin/

Passerine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 537 anagrams from letters in passerine (aeeinprss).

Definitions for passerine

adjective

  1. of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
  2. oscine (def 1).

noun

  1. any bird of the order Passeriformes.

Origin of passerine

1770-80; Latin passerīnus of a sparrow, equivalent to passer sparrow + -īnus -ine1

Examples for passerine

Baya, the weaver-bird (Plocĕus philippīnus), an interesting East Indian passerine bird, somewhat like the bullfinch.

Perhaps it may be best to clear off the few passerine species first.

passerine birds typically sing at a high rate throughout courtship and nestbuilding, but at a markedly lower rate thereafter.

The Buntings (Emberizid) are intimately associated with the passerine birds.

passerine birds, now generally called Insessores, or Perching-birds.

A bird of the passerine order, but an expert diver, frequenting running streams in mountainous countries.

It is significant that among the passerine birds there are but three families that are peculiar.

The famous black drongo or king-crow (Dicrurus ater) is the type of this well-marked family of passerine birds.

On Karindingen Island this was the only passerine bird seen.

Natal plumages and downy pteryloses of passerine birds of North America.

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