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单词 pico-passerine
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pico-passerineadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Pico-Passeres , -ine suffix1.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Pico-Passeres, former order name (H. Seebohm Classif. Birds (1890) 2; < classical Latin pīcus woodpecker (see piciform adj.2) + -o- -o- connective + Passeres Passeres n.) + -ine suffix1, after passerine adj. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (pəikoˌpæ·sĕrəin) /paɪkəʊˈpæsəraɪn/.
Ornithology. Obsolete. rare.
Of or belonging to the former order Pico-Passeres in Seebohm's classification, which included birds of the orders Perciformes and Passeriformes.
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1890 Ibis Jan. 33 Each of these six characters appears in every Pico-Passerine bird..but the combination of the six..never..outside the limits of the Pico-Passeres.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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