passerine vs oscine bird

oscine bird vs passerine

passerine and oscine bird both are nouns.

passerine is an adjective but oscine bird is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
passerine	Yes	Yes	No	No
oscine bird	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, oscine bird is a hyponym of passerine; that is, oscine bird 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 bird: passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

Other hyponyms of passerine include oscine, sparrow, true sparrow, lyrebird, scrub-bird, scrub bird, scrubbird, broadbill, tyrannid, jenny wren, wren.

passerine (noun)	oscine bird (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 bird (adjective)
relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds

Difference between passerine and oscine bird

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