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[syn: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird, percher]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insessor \In*ses"sor\, n.; pl. Insessores. [See Insessores.]
(Zool.)
One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the
common singing birds.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insessores \In`ses*so"res\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. insessor, lit.,
one who sits down, fr. incidere. See Insession.] (Zool.)
An order of birds, formerly established to include the
perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial
group.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Insessores
n 1: a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree
branches); this order is now generally abandoned by
taxonomists [syn: Insessores, order Insessores,
perching bird, percher]