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insessores
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun insessores has 1 sense
- insessores(n = noun.animal) order insessores, percher, perching bird - a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of aves, class aves
CIDE DICTIONARY
insessores, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. insessor, lit., one who sits down, fr. incidere. See Insession.].
An order of birds, formerly established to include the perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial group. [1913 Webster]
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