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Meanings of passeriform bird in anglès

portuguès
passeriformes
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passeriforme

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.

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        passeriforme
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        Examples for "passerine"
        Examples for "passerine"
        1
        This tint grows pale more easy than in the other genera of the passerine order.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        2
        Gravel beds, abandoned by film studios, were blissfully repossessed by passerine birds and opportunist plants.
        The Guardian
        3
        The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees.
        Wanderings in South America
        4
        Hood's labors were poetic, but his sports were passerine.
        Charles Lamb: A Memoir
        5
        The primary transmission cycle of WNV in the southeastern United States apparently involves Culex mosquitoes and passerine birds.
        Pubmed
        Translations for passeriform bird
        portuguès
        passeriformes