nonpasserine bird

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   chiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes

   Broaderbird

Questions about nonpasserine bird

What does nonpasserine bird mean?

nonpasserine bird means "chiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes".

Is nonpasserine bird a common word?

nonpasserine bird 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.