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Definition: Perching Birds |
Perching BirdsNoun1. Birds with feet adapted for perching on trees; this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | The largest order of birds including more than 5000 species or more than half of all living birds, consisting chiefly of songbirds of perching habits. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Perching BirdsSynonyms: order Insessores (n), perchers (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Perching Birds |
| English words defined with "perching birds": Anisodactyls, Anomaliped ♦ Conirostres ♦ Insessores, Insessorial ♦ nonpasserine ♦ order Insessores ♦ passeriform bird, passerine, perchers. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "perching birds": INAUSPICIOUSLY ♦ songbirds. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "perching birds"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | spurvefugle (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | zangvogels (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | passereaux, passériformes. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Sperlingsvoegel (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | στρουθιοειδή (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | passeriformi (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | erchingpay irdsbay passeriformes (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Passeriformes. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-g-h-i-i-n-p-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: prescribing. | |
-3 letters: describing. | |
-4 letters: bedspring, ciphering, cirripeds, dehiscing, inscribed, inscriber, perishing, piercings, precising, prehiring, presiding, repricing, reprising, respiring, ricebirds, ridership, springier. | |
-5 letters: birching, birdings, bringers, chirpers, chirpier, chirping, chirring, cirriped, cringers, crispier, crisping, desiring, dinghies, grinches, grinders, herrings, inscribe, inspired, inspirer, perching, piecings, piercing, pinchers, pinscher, prebinds, prescind, regrinds, rehiring, rerising, residing, respring, ricebird. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 63 68 69 6E 67      42 69 72 64 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000010 01101001 01110010 01100100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c h i n g   B i r d s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 0068 0069 006E 0067      0042 0069 0072 0064 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507184697475807323675847085 |
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