oscine

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For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds -- be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine" -- whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the Oscines, a large suborder of passerine birds that includes most songbirds.
  2. noun A bird of the suborder Oscines.

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  • I briefly discuss the major current hypotheses which have been put forward to explain the apparently redundant song repertoires of many oscine birds: individual recognition; sexual selection; matched countersinging; and habituation. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Thus, our study has revealed more than 200 annotated and unique genes that have not been previously detected in the context of the oscine song system. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
  • It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine. —  Birds of the Rockies
  • For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds -- be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine" -- whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable. —  Birds in the Bush
 

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  1. From New Latin Oscinēs, suborder name, from Latin oscinēs, pl. of oscen, bird used in augury; see kan- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Short for oscinine.
 

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