oscine

1. 1.

   of or relating to the songbirds

Other forms of oscine

plural

oscines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oscine

What does oscine mean?

oscine means "passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oscine?

oscine has 2 syllables: o-scine. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for oscine?

Close synonyms include oscine bird. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oscine a common word?

oscine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.