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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.
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insessores

noun
a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists 
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