Passeres

From Latin passerēs, plural of passer (“sparrow”).

Passeres

1. (archaic) An order of birds otherwise called Insessores, comprising more than half of all the birds; songbirds.

• Passer
• Passeri
• Passeriformes

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Passeres”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “Passeres”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.