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单词 oscinine
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oscinineadj.

Brit. /ˈɒsᵻnʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈɑsəˌnin/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Oscines , -ine suffix1.
Etymology: < Oscin- (in scientific Latin Oscines: see oscines n.) + -ine suffix1. Compare slightly earlier oscine adj.
Ornithology. Now rare.
= oscine adj.
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clamatorial1872
oscine1872
oscinine1882
oscinian1885
1882 Proc. Zool. Soc. 544 Both forms are typical Singing-birds (‘Oscines Normales’), with a well-developed Oscinine syrinx.
1896 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. IV Introd. 66 In all these species he found the vocal organs to differ essentially in structure from those of other Birds of the Old World, which we now call Passerine, or, to be still more precise, Oscinine.
1907 Amer. Naturalist 41 673 The third [volume]..includes 15 of the remaining families of oscinine Passeres.
1988 Auk 105 616 The interrelationships of 13 of the 14 species currently recognized in the Australo-Papuan oscinine scrubwrens, Sericornis, were assessed by protein electrophoresis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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