CARDUELIS CARDUELIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carduelis carduelis mean? 

• CARDUELIS CARDUELIS (noun)
  The noun CARDUELIS CARDUELIS has 1 sense:

1. small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings

  Familiarity information: CARDUELIS CARDUELIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDUELIS CARDUELIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carduelis carduelis; goldfinch

Hypernyms ("Carduelis carduelis" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Carduelis carduelis" is a member of...):

Carduelis; genus Carduelis (in some classifications considered the type genus of a subfamily Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae: goldfinches; siskins; redpolls; linnets)