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FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings
Synonyms:
family Fringillidae; Fringillidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Fringillidae" is a kind of...):
bird family (a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Meronyms (members of "family Fringillidae"):
Chlorura; genus Chlorura; genus Pipilo; Pipilo (towhees)
genus Pyrrhuloxia (large showy finches related to cardinals)
genus Richmondena; Richmondena (cardinals)
genus Pinicola; Pinicola (a genus of Fringillidae)
Coccothraustes; genus Coccothraustes (large finches)
genus Hesperiphona; Hesperiphona (evening grosbeak)
Emberizidae; subfamily Emberizidae; subfamily Emberizinae (buntings and some New World sparrows)
genus Melospiza; Melospiza (American song sparrow and swamp sparrow)
genus Spizella; Spizella (chipping sparrow; field sparrow; tree sparrow)
genus Zonotrichia; Zonotrichia (large New World sparrows)
genus Pooecetes; Pooecetes (a genus of Fringillidae)
genus Junco (American finches)
genus Pyrrhula; Pyrrhula (bullfinches)
genus Loxia; Loxia (crossbill)
genus Serinus; Serinus (Old World finches; e.g. canaries and serins)
Carpodacus; genus Carpodacus (house finches and purple finches)
genus Spinus; Spinus (in some classifications considered a subgenus of Carduelis: siskins and New World goldfinches)
Carduelis; genus Carduelis (in some classifications considered the type genus of a subfamily Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae: goldfinches; siskins; redpolls; linnets)
Carduelinae; subfamily Carduelinae (used in some classifications for a subgroup of finches)
Fringilla; genus Fringilla (type genus of the Fringillidae: chaffinch, brambling)
finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)
Holonyms ("family Fringillidae" is a member of...):
Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)