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oscine bird ThesaurusNoun | 1.oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatusoscinepasseriform bird, passerine - 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 helplessOscines, Passeres, suborder Oscines, suborder Passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirdssongbird, songster - any bird having a musical callhoney eater, honeysucker - Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectaraccentor - small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasialark - any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singingwagtail - Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walkspipit, titlark, lark - a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumagefinch - any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seedshoneycreeper - small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectarweaver finch, weaverbird, weaver - finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nestsflycatcher, Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher - any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wingthrush - songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breastwarbler - a small active songbirdbabbler, cackler - any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidaebird of paradise - any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea areaAmerican oriole, New World oriole, oriole - American songbird; male is black and orange or yellowOld World oriole, oriole - mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and blackstarling - gregarious birds native to the Old Worldcorvine bird - birds of the crow familyAustralian magpie - black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpiesMimus polyglotktos, mockingbird, mocker - long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birdsblue mockingbird, Melanotis caerulescens - mockingbird of MexicoDumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird, catbird - North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewingmocking thrush, thrasher - thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongsNew Zealand wren - birds of New Zealand that resemble wrenstree creeper, creeper - any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feetnuthatch, nutcracker - any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insectstitmouse, tit - small insectivorous birdsbluebird, fairy bluebird - fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indiesswallow - small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrationsswallow shrike, wood swallow - Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallowtanager - any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored malesshrike - any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animalsbowerbird, catbird - any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract femaleswater ouzel, dipper - small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottomvireo - any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in colorwaxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips |
oscine bird
Synonyms for oscine birdnoun passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatusSynonymsRelated Words- passeriform bird
- passerine
- Oscines
- Passeres
- suborder Oscines
- suborder Passeres
- songbird
- songster
- honey eater
- honeysucker
- accentor
- lark
- wagtail
- pipit
- titlark
- finch
- honeycreeper
- weaver finch
- weaverbird
- weaver
- flycatcher
- Old World flycatcher
- true flycatcher
- thrush
- warbler
- babbler
- cackler
- bird of paradise
- American oriole
- New World oriole
- oriole
- Old World oriole
- starling
- corvine bird
- Australian magpie
- Mimus polyglotktos
- mockingbird
- mocker
- blue mockingbird
- Melanotis caerulescens
- Dumetella carolinensis
- gray catbird
- grey catbird
- catbird
- mocking thrush
- thrasher
- New Zealand wren
- tree creeper
- creeper
- nuthatch
- nutcracker
- titmouse
- tit
- bluebird
- fairy bluebird
- swallow
- swallow shrike
- wood swallow
- tanager
- shrike
- bowerbird
- water ouzel
- dipper
- vireo
- waxwing
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