Definition of Order insessores

1. Noun. A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists.

Exact synonyms: Insessores, Percher, Perching Bird
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Derivative terms: Perch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Insessores

order Haplosporidia
order Heliozoa
order Helotiales
order Hemiptera
order Heterosomata
order Heterotrichales
order Hymenogastrales
order Hymenoptera
order Hypericales
order Hypermastigina
order Hypocreales
order Hyracoidea
order Ichthyosauria
order Ictodosauria
order Insectivora
order Insessores
order Isoetales
order Isopoda
order Isoptera
order Isospondyli
order Juglandales
order Jungermanniales
order Lagomorpha
order Laminariales
order Lechanorales
order Lepidodendrales
order Lepidoptera
order Lichenales
order Liliales
order Lobata

Literary usage of Order insessores

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Order INSESSORES. If the Raptores inhabiting Australia are few in number, such is not the case with those next ..."

2. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1858)
"The different groups of the order Insessores are subject to considerable variations in respect to the structure of the lower larynx attached to the trachea ..."

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