Dictionary entry details
• OSCINE BIRD (noun)
Meaning:
Passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
oscine; oscine bird
Hypernyms ("oscine bird" 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 bird"):
waxwing (brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips)
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)
bluebird; fairy bluebird (fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies)
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)
Australian magpie (black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies)
corvine bird (birds of the crow family)
starling (gregarious birds native to the Old World)
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)
weaver; weaver finch; weaverbird (finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests)
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)
Holonyms ("oscine bird" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)
