noun
perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless
• Syn: ↑passerine
• Hypernyms: ↑bird
• Hyponyms:
↑oscine, ↑oscine bird, ↑sparrow, ↑true sparrow, ↑lyrebird, ↑scrubbird, ↑scrub-bird, ↑scrub bird, ↑broadbill, ↑tyrannid, ↑wren, ↑jenny wren
• Member Holonyms: ↑Passeriformes, ↑order Passeriformes
Useful english dictionary. 2012.