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perching bird

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Noun1.perching bird - a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches)perching bird - a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
Insessores, order Insessores, percher
animal order - the order of animals
Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds
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Dinah was a riddle to her; Hetty looked at her much in the same way as one might imagine a little perching bird that could only flutter from bough to bough, to look at the swoop of the swallow or the mounting of the lark; but she did not care to solve such riddles, any more than she cared to know what was meant by the pictures in the Pilgrim's Progress, or in the old folio Bible that Marty and Tommy always plagued her about on a Sunday.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
 
 
 
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