Adjective passerine has 1 sense
  1. passerine - relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds
    Antonym:
    nonpasserine
,Noun passerine has 1 sense
  1. passerine, passeriform bird - 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
    --1 is a kind of bird
    --1 is a member of Passeriformes, order Passeriformes
    --1 has particulars:
     oscine, oscine bird; sparrow, true sparrow; lyrebird; scrubbird, scrub-bird, scrub bird; broadbill; tyrannid; wren, jenny wren
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