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spizine

spizine adjective: relative to the Spizinae, an obsolete suborder of birds within the order Passeriformes (songbirds) that bear features characteristic of finches and similar small birds with a short conical bill, in use until the turn of the XIXᵗʰ century.

Adjective

spizine (not comparable)

  1. Relative to the Spizinae, an obsolete suborder of birds within the order Passeriformes (songbirds) that bear features characteristic of finches and similar small birds with a short conical bill, in use until the turn of the XIXᵗʰ century.

Questions about spizine

What does spizine mean?
Spizine means relative to the Spizinae, an obsolete suborder of birds within the order Passeriformes (songbirds) that bear features characteristic of finches and similar small birds with a short conical bill, in use until the turn of the XIXᵗʰ century.
What part of speech is spizine?
Spizine is an adjective.

Words near spizine in the dictionary

  1. spivvy
  2. Spix's guan
  3. Spix's guans
  4. Spixworth
  5. spizelline
  6. spizine
  7. spizofurone
  8. spizzerinctum
  9. Spizzirri
  10. Spizzirris
  11. SPJ

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