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PASSERIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
order Passeriformes; Passeriformes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Passeriformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Passeriformes"):
passeriform bird; passerine (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)
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
Menurae; suborder Menurae (lyrebirds and scrubbirds)
Eurylaimi; suborder Eurylaimi (broadbills)
suborder Tyranni; Tyranni (New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers)
Clamatores; suborder Clamatores (used in some classification systems; a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni; Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal organs and little power of song; clamatorial birds)
family Troglodytidae; Troglodytidae (wrens)
Holonyms ("Passeriformes" is a member of...):
Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)
