passeridae

English Thesaurus

1. true sparrows: Old world birds formerly considered weaverbirds (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird family,
definition	:	a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	sparrow, true sparrow,
definition	:	any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus passer, passer,
definition	:	type genus of the Passeridae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	oscines, passeres, suborder oscines, suborder passeres,
definition	:	two names for the suborder of typical songbirds (noun.animal)