passerine

/pas-er-in, -uh-rahyn, -uh-reen/US // ˈpæs ər ɪn, -əˌraɪn, -əˌrin //UK // (ˈpæsəˌraɪn, -ˌriːn) //

过路人,过山车,过路鸟,过客

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching.
- : oscine.

n.名词 noun

There are not more than about twenty species of small passerine birds that live all the year in London proper.
Strepera, strep′e-ra, n. an Australian genus of corvine passerine birds, the crow-shrikes.
Turdus, tur′dus, n. a genus of Passerine birds of the Turdid family, the thrushes.
Tyran′nid, a family of Passerine birds, the typical genus Tyran′nus, the tyrant-birds or tyrant-flycatchers.
The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees.