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GROSSBEAK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill

Synonyms:

grosbeak; grossbeak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("grossbeak" is a kind of...):

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grossbeak"):

evening grosbeak; Hesperiphona vespertina (North American grosbeak)

Coccothraustes coccothraustes; hawfinch (a common large finch of Eurasia)

pine grosbeak; Pinicola enucleator (large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds)

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