English > order Passeriformes: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows / sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres. |
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| Synonym | Passeriformes |
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| Member of | Aves, class Aves | (ornithology) the class of birds |
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| Members | Clamatores, suborder Clamatores | Used in some classification systems |
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| Eurylaimi, suborder Eurylaimi | broadbills |
| Menurae, suborder Menurae | lyrebirds and scrubbirds |
| Oscines, suborder Oscines, Passeres, suborder Passeres | Two names for the suborder of typical songbirds |
| Troglodytidae, family Troglodytidae | wrens |
| Tyranni, suborder Tyranni | New World flycatchers |
| passerine, passeriform bird | perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch |
| Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
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| Spanish | paseriformes, passeriformes |
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| Catalan | Passeriforme, Passeriformes, passeriformes |
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