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passerine vs oscine

oscine vs passerine

passerine and oscine both are nouns.

passerine and oscine both are adjectives.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
passerine Yes Yes No No
oscine Yes Yes No No
As nouns, oscine is a hyponym of passerine; that is, oscine is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than passerine:
  • 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
  • oscine: passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
Other hyponyms of passerine include oscine bird, sparrow, true sparrow, lyrebird, scrub-bird, scrub bird, scrubbird, broadbill, tyrannid, jenny wren, wren.
passerine (noun) oscine (noun)
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 passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
passerine (adjective) oscine (adjective)
relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds of or relating to the songbirds
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