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passerine

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈpæsəɹaɪn/Part of speech noun, adjectiveSorted aeeinprssStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A perching bird, especially a songbird.

Word origin

Adjective sense 1 is borrowed from New Latin Passer (“bird genus”) (from Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly (in the sense of spreading out wings)”)) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).

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