Relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds.
Antónimos
Examples for "passerine"
Examples for "passerine"
1This tint grows pale more easy than in the other genera of the passerine order.
2Gravel beds, abandoned by film studios, were blissfully repossessed by passerine birds and opportunist plants.
3The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees.
4Hood's labors were poetic, but his sports were passerine.
5The primary transmission cycle of WNV in the southeastern United States apparently involves Culex mosquitoes and passerine birds.