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oscine
| oscine bird
| oscines
| oscinian
| oscinine
| oscitance
oscine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun oscine has 1 sense
- oscine(n = noun.animal) oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus; Array is a kind of passeriform bird, passerine
is a member of oscines, passeres, suborder oscines, suborder passeres
has particulars: songbird, songster, honey eater, honeysucker, accentor, lark, wagtail, lark, pipit, titlark, finch, honeycreeper, weaver, weaver finch, weaverbird, flycatcher, old world flycatcher, true flycatcher, thrush, warbler, babbler, cackler, bird of paradise, american oriole, new world oriole, oriole, old world oriole, oriole, starling, corvine bird, australian magpie, mimus polyglotktos, mocker, mockingbird, blue mockingbird, melanotis caerulescens, catbird, dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird, mocking thrush, thrasher, new zealand wren, creeper, tree creeper, nutcracker, nuthatch, tit, titmouse, bluebird, fairy bluebird, swallow, swallow shrike, wood swallow, tanager, shrike, bowerbird, catbird, dipper, water ouzel, vireo, waxwing
Derived form adjective oscine1
Adjective oscine has 1 sense
- oscine(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the songbirds; Array Derived form noun oscine1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
oscine, adj. (also oscinine) of or relating to the suborder Oscines of passerine birds including many of the songbirds.
Etymology
L oscen -cinis songbird (as OB-, canere sing)
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