- nonpasserine bird
- nounchiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes• Hypernyms: ↑bird
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bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 … Universalium
Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a … Universalium
apodiform bird — noun nonpasserine bird having long wings and weak feet; spends much of its time in flight • Hypernyms: ↑bird • Hyponyms: ↑swift, ↑tree swift, ↑crested swift, ↑hummingbird • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
caprimulgiform bird — noun long winged nonpasserine birds • Hypernyms: ↑bird • Hyponyms: ↑goatsucker, ↑nightjar, ↑caprimulgid, ↑frogmouth, ↑oilbird, ↑guacharo, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
coraciiform bird — noun chiefly short legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes • Hypernyms: ↑bird • Hyponyms: ↑roller, ↑kingfisher, ↑bee eater, ↑hornbill, ↑hoopoe, ↑hoopoo, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
piciform bird — noun any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood • Hypernyms: ↑bird • Hyponyms: ↑woodpecker, ↑peckerwood, ↑pecker, ↑barbet, ↑puffbird, ↑honey guide … Useful english dictionary
hoopoe — noun Etymology: alteration of obsolete hoop, from Middle French huppe, from Latin upupa, of imitative origin Date: 1668 a crested Old World nonpasserine bird (Upupa epops of the family Upupidae) having a slender decurved bill and barred black and … New Collegiate Dictionary
passeriform — /pas euhr euh fawrm , peuh ser euh /, adj. of or pertaining to the order Passeriformes; passerine. [ < NL Passeriformes, equiv. to L passer sparrow + iformes IFORMES] * * * ▪ bird Introduction also called passerine or perching bird any… … Universalium
South America — South American. a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. 271,000,000; ab. 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km). * * * Continent, Western Hemisphere. The world s fourth largest continent, it is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the… … Universalium
honey guide — noun small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae • Hypernyms: ↑piciform bird • Member Holonyms: ↑Indicatoridae, ↑family Indicatoridae * * * noun 1. : any of several small plainly colored nonpasserine birds of the … Useful english dictionary
