noun
a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
• Syn: ↑Insessores, ↑order Insessores, ↑percher
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Aves, ↑class Aves
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any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
[1815-25]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.