Insessores

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Insessores
       n : a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches);
           this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
           [syn: {order Insessores}, {perching bird}, {percher}]