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