Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not oscine; not belonging to the Oscines, or not conformingto normal oscine characters.

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  • For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds -- be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine" -- whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable.

    Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877

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