oscine in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or denoting passerine birds of a large division that includes the songbirds.
The ability of territorial oscine males to discriminate between songs of neighbors and strangers has received considerable attention, but this phenomenon is virtually unstudied in suboscines.
noun
1
a bird of the oscine division.
Cracraft shows an unresolved three-way split between oscines (which form the large majority of passerine birds), suboscines, and New Zealand wrens.

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1. 8 words related to Accentor: oscine, oscine bird, genus Prunella, Prunella, dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow

2. The results showed that the acoustic structures of non-passerine, sub-oscine passerine and oscine passerine's songs have significant differences.

3. Accentor - small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus genus Prunella, Prunella - type genus of the Prunellidae dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, sparrow - small brownish European songbird

4. Mountain Accentor definition is - a Siberian oscine bird (Prunella montanella) related to the hedge sparrow.

5. Crow definition, any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C