OSCINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oscine mean? 

• OSCINE (noun)
  The noun OSCINE has 1 sense:

1. passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

  Familiarity information: OSCINE used as a noun is very rare.

• OSCINE (adjective)
  The adjective OSCINE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the songbirds

  Familiarity information: OSCINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSCINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

oscine; oscine bird

Hypernyms ("oscine" is a kind of...):

passeriform bird; passerine (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oscine"):

bluebird; fairy bluebird (fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies)

Australian magpie (black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies)

Mimus polyglotktos; mocker; mockingbird (long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds)

blue mockingbird; Melanotis caerulescens (mockingbird of Mexico)

catbird; Dumetella carolinensis; gray catbird; grey catbird (North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing)

mocking thrush; thrasher (thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs)

New Zealand wren (birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens)

creeper; tree creeper (any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet)

nutcracker; nuthatch (any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects)

tit; titmouse (small insectivorous birds)

corvine bird (birds of the crow family)

swallow (small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations)

swallow shrike; wood swallow (Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow)

tanager (any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males)

shrike (any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals)

bowerbird; catbird (any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females)

dipper; water ouzel (small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom)

vireo (any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color)

waxwing (brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips)

weaver; weaver finch; weaverbird (finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests)

songbird; songster (any bird having a musical call)

honey eater; honeysucker (Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar)

accentor (small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia)

lark (any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing)

wagtail (Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks)

lark; pipit; titlark (a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage)

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

honeycreeper (small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar)

flycatcher; Old World flycatcher; true flycatcher (any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing)

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

warbler (a small active songbird)

babbler; cackler (any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae)

bird of paradise (any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area)

American oriole; New World oriole; oriole (American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow)

Old World oriole; oriole (mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black)

starling (gregarious birds native to the Old World)

Holonyms ("oscine" is a member of...):

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)

Derivation:

oscine (of or relating to the songbirds)

• OSCINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the songbirds

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Derivation:

oscine (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)