oscine

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Latin oscen (“songbird”).

Though we think there are some birds--the alites and oscines[240], as our augurs call them--which were made merely to foretell events. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero

oscine bird

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