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perching bird

noun

a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists

• Derivationally related forms: ↑perch (for: ↑percher)

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves

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any member of the avian order Passeriformes.

[1815-25]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.