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Perching Birds

Definition: Perching Birds

Perching Birds

Noun

1. 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.
 

Specialty Definitions: Perching Birds

DomainDefinitions

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 Birds

Synonyms: order Insessores (n), perchers (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Perching Birds

English words defined with "perching birds": Anisodactyls, AnomalipedConirostresInsessores, Insessorialnonpasserineorder Insessorespasseriform bird, passerine, perchers. (references)
Specialty definitions using "perching birds": INAUSPICIOUSLYsongbirds. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Perching Birds

DomainTitle

Books

  • Perching Birds of North America (Animals in Order) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Modern Translations: Perching Birds

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

   

Portuguese

  

passeriformes (passeriformes, songbirds). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Perching Birds

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Passeriformes. (various references)

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Anagrams: Perching Birds

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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Alternative Orthography: Perching Birds


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 72 63 68 69 6E 67      42 69 72 64 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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