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Definition of Genus fringilla
1. Noun. Type genus of the Fringillidae: chaffinch, brambling.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Fringillidae, Fringillidae
Member holonyms: Chaffinch, Fringilla Coelebs, Brambling, Fringilla Montifringilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fringilla
Literary usage of Genus fringilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Long Island by Jacob P. Giraud (1844)
"genus fringilla —LINN. FINCH. [Bill abort, stout, conical, pointed—upper mandible
with the ridge straight ; nostrils concealed by feathers ; head rather ..."
2. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"The transfer of this species to the genus Fringilla, renders a change necessary
in the name of Loxia cyanea of ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The typical finches are found in the genus fringilla (Linn.), which is distributed
over all the world, living in flocks in which are often associated ..."
4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The typical finches are found in the genus fringilla (Linn.), which is distributed
over all the world, living in flocks in which are often associated ..."
5. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Two species of the genus Fringilla occur in England, and one of them, the Brambling,
ranges right across Asia to Japan. In Algeria, Madeira, the Canary ..."
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