PASSERIFORMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Passeriformes mean? 

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

1. largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASSERIFORMES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Passeriformes; Passeriformes

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Passeriformes"):

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)

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

Menurae; suborder Menurae (lyrebirds and scrubbirds)

Eurylaimi; suborder Eurylaimi (broadbills)

suborder Tyranni; Tyranni (New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers)

Clamatores; suborder Clamatores (used in some classification systems; a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni; Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal organs and little power of song; clamatorial birds)

family Troglodytidae; Troglodytidae (wrens)

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

Aves; class Aves ((ornithology) the class of birds)