English > oscine: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus. |
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| Synonym | oscine bird |
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| Member of | Oscines, suborder Oscines, Passeres, suborder Passeres | Two names for the suborder of typical songbirds |
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| Narrower | Australian magpie | Black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies |
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| New World oriole, American oriole, oriole | American songbird |
| New Zealand wren | birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens |
| Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher, flycatcher | Any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
| Old World oriole, oriole | Mostly tropical songbird |
| accentor | small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia |
| babbler, cackler | Any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song |
| bird of paradise | Any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area |
| blue mockingbird, Melanotis caerulescens | mockingbird of Mexico |
| bowerbird, catbird | Any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females |
| catbird, grey catbird, gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis | North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing |
| corvine bird | birds of the crow family |
| 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 |
| fairy bluebird, bluebird | fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies |
| finch | Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
| honey eater, honeysucker | Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar |
| honeycreeper | small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar |
| lark | Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing |
| mockingbird, mocker, Mimus polyglotktos | long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds |
| nuthatch, nutcracker | Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects |
| pipit, titlark, lark | A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country |
| shrike | Any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals |
| songbird, songster | Any bird having a musical call |
| starling | gregarious birds native to the Old World |
| swallow | small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations |
| tanager | Any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males |
| thrasher, mocking thrush | Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs |
| thrush | songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast |
| titmouse, tit | small insectivorous birds |
| vireo | Any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color |
| wagtail | Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks |
| warbler | A small active songbird |
| water ouzel, dipper | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet |
| waxwing | brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips |
| weaver, weaverbird, weaver finch | finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests |
| wood swallow, swallow shrike | Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow |
| Broader | passerine, passeriform bird | perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch |
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| Spanish | oscine |
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| Catalan | oscine |
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| Adjectives | oscine | of or relating to the songbirds |
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