Noun | 1. | ![]() animal order - the order of animals order Passeriformes, Passeriformes - largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres tyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannidae - New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada family Pipridae, Pipridae - manakins family Furnariidae, Furnariidae - e.g. ovenbirds family Formicariidae, Formicariidae - antbirds Dendrocolaptidae, family Dendrocolaptidae - woodhewers or woodcreepers |