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suboscine

suboscine adjective: of or pertaining to the passerine birds of the suborder Tyranni.

suboscine: of or pertaining to the passerine birds of the suborder Tyranni
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Adjective

suboscine (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the passerine birds of the suborder Tyranni.

Noun

suboscine (plural suboscines)

  1. Any of the passerine birds of suborder Tyranni, which includes broadbills, asities, pittas, antbirds and others.
    • Crucial to my model, however, are two suboscines, one of which is the threewattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata), that do not quite fit into the current picture of oscine versus suboscine classification.2007, Irene M. Pepperberg, “19: Emergence of Linguistic Communicetion”, in Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi, editors, Emergence of Communication and Language, page 376
    • Sequence data unequivocally support the paraphyly of suboscine passerines (Figure 9.5). This is not too surprising when it is considered that prior to Sibley's DNA hybridization work, which recovered suboscine monophyly, relationships of suboscines had been controversial on morphological grounds.2011, F. Keith Barker, “Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Passerines”, in Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, editors, Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds, page 244

Forms of suboscine

pluralsuboscines

Origin of suboscine

From sub- + oscine.

Words formed from suboscine

Questions about suboscine

What does suboscine mean?
Suboscine means of or pertaining to the passerine birds of the suborder Tyranni.
What part of speech is suboscine?
Suboscine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near suboscine in the dictionary

  1. subornings
  2. suborns
  3. suborthochoanitic
  4. suboscillator
  5. suboscillators
  6. suboscine
  7. suboscines
  8. subosteoclastic
  9. Subotica
  10. suboutline
  11. suboutlines

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