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Definition of Oscinine
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Oscines.
Definition of Oscinine
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Oscines, or songbirds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oscinine
1. oscine [adj] - See also: oscine
Medical Definition of Oscinine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oscinine
Literary usage of Oscinine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"... reproductions or mimicries of other oscinine groups have been developed.
Some are similar in general appearance and habits to the Kinglets ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1888)
"... are non-oscinine is entirely due to the researches of Forbes, who investigated
their anatomical structure in 1882*. Forbes showed that the syrinx in ..."
3. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"(swing back and forth ; vibrate ; fluctuate) 'esi- 1et. oscine adj. oscinine [also
sprit ... (the song-birds) 'esi-niz. oscinine adj. ..."
4. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1914)
"... Coraciiformes with two carotid arteries, nude oil-gland, non-oscinine or ...
wing-coverts sub-oscinine; lateral rectrices rudimentary or sixth pair ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... the third bears date 1904, and includes 1.5 of the remaining families of
oscinine Passeres; the fourth, published in July of the present year, ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1894)
"The present volume seems to be entirely oscinine, and Mr. Nehrung may have to
put on his thinking-cap if he is to bring the rest of the Passerines and all ..."
7. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... doubtfully placed here, possesses vocal organs abnormal for an oscinine
bird.1 Graceful and tame, it frequents homesteads, stream-sides, and swamps, ..."
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