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    PASSERIFORM BIRD

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 helplessplay

    Synonyms:

    passeriform bird; passerine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("passeriform bird" is a kind of...):

    bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "passeriform bird"):

    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)

    Holonyms ("passeriform bird" is a member of...):

    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)

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