passerine
English Thesaurus
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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | bird, |
| definition | : | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | oscine, oscine bird, |
| definition | : | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sparrow, true sparrow, |
| definition | : | any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lyrebird, |
| definition | : | Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | scrub bird, scrub-bird, scrubbird, |
| definition | : | small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | broadbill, |
| definition | : | small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tyrannid, |
| definition | : | a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | jenny wren, wren, |
| definition | : | any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | order passeriformes, passeriformes, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | passerine, |
| definition | : | relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds (adj.pert) |
2. relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds (adj.pert)
| antonym | : | nonpasserine, |
| definition | : | relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds (adj.pert) |
| pertainym | : | passeriform bird, passerine, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | passeriform bird, passerine, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
3. 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 (noun.animal)
| derivation | : | passerine, |
| definition | : | relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds (adj.pert) |
4. relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds (adj.pert)
| antonym | : | nonpasserine, |
| definition | : | relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds (adj.pert) |
| pertainym | : | passeriform bird, passerine, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | passeriform bird, passerine, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
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