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suboscines

suboscines is the plural of suboscine.

Meaning of suboscine

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

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Questions about suboscines

What is suboscines the plural of?
Suboscines is the plural of suboscine.

Words near suboscines in the dictionary

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

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