Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Insessor \In*ses"sor\, n.; pl. {Insessores}. [See {Insessores}.]
(Zo["o]l.)
One of the Insessores. The group includes most of the common
singing birds.
Insessores \In`ses*so"res\, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. insessor, lit.,
one who sits down, fr. incidere. See {Insession}.] (Zo["o]l.)
An order of birds, formerly established to include the
perching birds, but now generally regarded as an artificial
group.
Source : WordNet®
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}]