PINE SISKIN

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Meaning:

Small finch of North American coniferous forests

Synonyms:

pine finch; pine siskin; Spinus pinus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pine siskin" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("pine siskin" is a member of...):

genus Spinus; Spinus (in some classifications considered a subgenus of Carduelis: siskins and New World goldfinches)

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