oscine bird

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   passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

   Synonymsoscine

   Broaderpasserine

   Narrowersongbirdhoney eateraccentorlarkwagtailpipitfinchhoneycreeperweaverOld World flycatcher

   Part ofOscines

Questions about oscine bird

What does oscine bird mean?

oscine bird means "passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus".

What is another word for oscine bird?

Close synonyms include oscine. 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 bird a common word?

oscine 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.