Oscine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the Oscines, a large suborder of passerine birds that includes most songbirds.
  • n. A bird of the suborder Oscines.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to songbirds
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Relating to the Oscines.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the Oscines: applied to those Passeres which are acromyodian and to their type of structure: as, an oscine bird; an oscine syrinx. Also oscinine, oscinian.
  • n. An oscine bird; a member of the Oscines.
  • n. A crystalline alkaloid, C8H13O2N, found in crude belladonine and also made from other alkaloids. It melts at 110° C. Also called pseudatropine, scopoline, and oxytropine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
  • adj. of or relating to the songbirds
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