Passerine

Definitions: Passerine

Passerine

Adjective

1. Relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds.

Noun

1. 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.

Date "passerine" was first used: 1776. (references)

Synonym: Passerine

Synonym: passeriform bird (n). (additional references)

Antonym: nonpasserine (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	An atlas of speciation in African passerine birds (reference) Ecology and Management of Cowbirds and Their Hosts: Studies in the Conservation of North American Passerine Birds (reference) Habitat Characteristics of Some Passerine Birds in Western North American Taiga (reference) Population Biology of Passerine Birds: An Integrated Approach: Proceedings (NATO Asi Series G, Ecological Sciences, Vol.24) (reference) Species Limits & Systematics in Some Passerine Birds (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty Science aNd Technology, 726) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In the western United States, the enzootic cycle of WEE involves passerine birds, in which the infection is inapparent, and culicine mosquitoes, principally Cx. tarsalis, a species that is associated with irrigated agriculture and stream drainages. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Passerine" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Passerine" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Language		Translations for "passerine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		harabeli. (various references)

Arabic		‏جاثم من الطيور الجواثم. (various references)

Bulgarian		врабчов, птица от разред врабчови. (various references)

Greek		είδοσ σπουργίτου, ανήκων εισ την τάξη των σπουργιτών. (various references)

Hungarian		verébszerû. (various references)

Italian		passeraceo. (various references)

Pig Latin		asserinepay

Portuguese		transeunte (passer-by), respeitante a pássaro. (various references)

Romanian		din familia passeres, de vrabie. (various references)

Russian		воробьиный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vrapčji, kao vrabac. (various references)

Swedish		tätting (sparrow), sparv-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	passerinus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "passerine": passerines. (additional references)
	Words ending with "passerine": nonpasserine. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Passerine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aserbine, azaserine, Pascaline, passeri, passerinum, passeront, patarine, pessaire. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: erepsins, naperies, ripeness.
	-2 letters: aperies, arsines, asperse, aspires, erepsin, paniers, pansies, pareses, paresis, parises, penises, perinea, praises, rapines, repines, sapiens, seiners, serapes, sereins, serines, snipers, spireas, sprains.
	-3 letters: aeries, anises, arisen, arises, arpens, arsine, aspens, aspers, aspire, easier, easies, erases, espies, nereis, panier, paries, parses, passee, passer, peasen, peases, peises, pereia, perses, pisser, praise, prases, preens, prises, raises, ranees, rapine, repass, repine, repins, resins, rinses, ripens, sanies, sansei, sarees, sarins, sarsen, seiner, seines, seiser, sepias, serais, serape, serein, series, serine, serins, sirees, sirens, snares, sneaps, sneers, sniper, snipes, spares, sparse, speans, spears, speers, speirs, speise, spense, spiers, spines, spirea, spires, sprain, sprees.
	-4 letters: aerie, airns, anise, apers, apres, apses, apsis, arise, arpen, arses, arsis, aspen, asper, aspis, earns, eases, erase, ernes, erses, napes, nares, naris, neaps, nears, neeps, nipas, pains, pairs, paise, panes, pares, paris, parse, pases, passe, peans, pears, pease, peens, peers, peins, peise, penes, penis, perea, peris, perse, pians, piers, pinas, pines, pirns, prase, preen, prees, presa, prese, press, pries, prise, priss, rains, raise, ranee, ranis, rapes, rases, rasps, reaps, reins, repin, resin, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, rises, sains, saner, sanes, saree, sarin, saris, sasin, sears, seeps, seers, seine, seise, sensa, sense, sepia, serai, seres, serin, sines, sipes, siree, siren, sires, snaps, snare, sneap, sneer, snipe, snips, spaes, spans, spare, spars, spean, spear, speer, speir, spier, spies, spine, spins, spire, spree.
	-5 letters: ains, airn, airs, anes, anis, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, asps, earn, ears, ease, eras, erne, erns, eses, ires, nape, naps, neap, near, neep, ness, nipa, nips, pain, pair, pane, pans, pare, pars, pase, pass, pean, pear, peas, peen, peer, pees, pein, pens, peri, pian, pias, pier, pies, pina, pine, pins, pirn, piss, pree, psis, rain, rani, rape, raps, rase, rasp, reap, rees, rein, reis, reps, rias, rins, ripe, rips, rise, sain, sane, sans, saps, sari, sear, seas, seen, seep, seer, sees, seis, sene, sera, sere, sers, sine, sins, sipe, sips, sire, sirs, snap, snip, spae, span, spar, spas, spin, sris.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: paperiness, passerines, pistareens, sparteines.
	+2 letters: aepyornises, antipyreses, grapinesses, interphases, interspaces, paragenesis, parenthesis, peasantries, pedestrians, personalise, preachiness, preassigned, privateness, proteinases, rapidnesses, septenarius, spessartine.
	+3 letters: desipramines, desperations, dispensaries, expressional, generalships, greasepaints, hypermnesias, impersonates, inseparables, intraspecies, narcolepsies, nonpasserine, paltrinesses, paperinesses, pensionaries, personalised, personalises, personalizes, personalties, planispheres, pleasantries, precessional, spessartines, traineeships, transpierces, unpersuasive.
	+4 letters: antipleasures, appraisements, apprehensions, arsenopyrites, arsphenamines, cheeseparings, discrepancies, disparateness, endoparasites, epicureanisms, exasperations, exemplariness, graphicnesses, housepainters, hyperkinesias, inspectorates, isoprenalines, japonaiseries, marlinespikes, misapprehends, operativeness, painterliness, parenthesizes, passementerie, pedestrianism, personalities, pervasiveness, phalansteries, preachinesses, predesignates, predestinates, presentations, preservations, privatenesses, proximateness, repristinates, scenographies, scrappinesses, sheepshearing, stenographies, stipendiaries, streptokinase, superagencies, supercabinets, temporariness, underemphasis.
	+5 letters: affenpinschers, antidepressant, antidepression, asthenospheric, depersonalizes, disappearances, disparagements, dispensatories, graspingnesses, imperativeness, impersonalizes, impressionable, letterspacings, nonperishables, overexpansions, overpersuasion, passementeries, pectinesterase, pedestrianisms, perseverations, persuasiveness, prankishnesses, preanesthetics, precariousness, predestinators, profitableness, semiporcelains, sheepshearings, snippersnapper, stepparentings, streptokinases, superfetations, superinsulated, supermasculine, transparencies, treponematosis, vaporishnesses.
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