passerine

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It is the term applied to a one-year-old sheep. passerine It ought to be a bird of passage, but it isn't.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to birds of the order Passeriformes, which includes perching birds and songbirds such as the jays, blackbirds, finches, warblers, and sparrows.
  2. noun A bird of the order Passeriformes.

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  • Hood's labors were poetic, but his sports were passerine. —  Charles Lamb
  • It is the term applied to a one-year-old sheep. passerine It ought to be a bird of passage, but it isn't. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
  • Erythrina poeppigiana is pollinated by perching passerine birds. —  Chapter 36
  • This tint grows pale more easy than in the other genera of the passerine order. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • - ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike ' —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin passerīnus, of sparrows, from passer, sparrow.

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  1. from Latinpasserinus, of a sparrow, from passer, sparrow: see Passer.
 

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/ˈpæsərɪn/
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