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    FAMILY FRINGILLIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntingsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Fringillidae; Fringillidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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