Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun passerine

1 sense of passerine

Sense 1
passerine, passeriform bird -- (perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless)
       => bird -- (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Antonyms of adj passerine

1 sense of passerine

Sense 1
passerine (vs. nonpasserine) -- (relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds)

nonpasserine (vs. passerine) -- (relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds)

Similarity of adj passerine

1 sense of passerine

Sense 1
passerine (vs. nonpasserine) -- (relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds)