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passeres
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun passeres has 1 sense
- passeres(n = noun.animal) oscines, suborder oscines, suborder passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of order passeriformes, passeriformes
CIDE DICTIONARY
passeres, prop. n. pl. [NL., fr. L. passer a sparrow.].
An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds. [1913 Webster]
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