English adjective: passerine | |||
1. | passerine relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds | ||
Antonyms | nonpasserine | ||
English noun: passerine | |||
1. | passerine (animal) 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 | ||
Synonyms | passeriform bird | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bird | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | broadbill, jenny wren, lyrebird, oscine, oscine bird, scrub bird, scrub-bird, scrubbird, sparrow, true sparrow, tyrannid, wren | ||
Member meronym | order Passeriformes, Passeriformes | ||