Usually means: Birds characterized by perching habits.
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  1. passerine: Merriam-Webster
  2. passerine, passerine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. passerine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. passerine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. passerine: Vocabulary.com
  6. passerine: Wordnik
  7. passerine: Wiktionary
  8. passerine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. passerine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. passerine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. passerine: Dictionary.com
  12. passerine (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Passerine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Passerine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. passerine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. passerine: Rhymezone
  17. Passerine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. passerine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. passerine: FreeDictionary.org
  20. passerine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. passerine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. passerine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. passerine: Encyclopedia

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  2. passerine: Medical dictionary

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  1. passerine: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

(Note: See passerines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (passerine)

adjective:  Of or relating to the Passeriformes order of perching birds, which are generally anisodactyl (“having three toes pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching”).
adjective:  (archaic) Chiefly in the former names of some birds: approximately the size of a sparrow.
noun:  Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.

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