nonpasserine

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds

   Antonymspasserine

Questions about nonpasserine

What does nonpasserine mean?

nonpasserine means "relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds".

How many syllables are in nonpasserine?

nonpasserine has 4 syllables and divides as non-pas-se-rine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of nonpasserine?

The recorded antonyms are passerine.

Is nonpasserine a common word?

nonpasserine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.