FRINGILLIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fringillidae mean? 

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

1. finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRINGILLIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Fringillidae; Fringillidae

Hypernyms ("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 "Fringillidae"):

genus Pooecetes; Pooecetes (a genus of 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 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 ("Fringillidae" is a member of...):

Oscines; Passeres; suborder Oscines; suborder Passeres (two names for the suborder of typical songbirds)