Definition of Pyrrhula

1. Noun. Bullfinches.

Exact synonyms: Genus Pyrrhula
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Fringillidae, Fringillidae
Member holonyms: Bullfinch, Pyrrhula Pyrrhula

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrrhula

Pyrola rotundifolia
Pyrola rotundifolia americana
Pyrola uniflora
Pyrolaceae
Pyrophorus
Pyrophorus noctiluca
Pyrrhic
Pyrrhic victories
Pyrrhic victory
Pyrrhocoridae
Pyrrhonian
Pyrrhonism
Pyrrhonisms
Pyrrhonist
Pyrrhonists
Pyrrhula
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata
Pyrrhus
Pyrrophyta
Pyrrosia
Pyrrosia lingua
Pyrularia
Pyrularia pubera
Pyrus
Pyrus communis
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pythagoras
Pythagorean
Pythagorean theorem

Literary usage of Pyrrhula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1897)
"The home of this species is in Eastern North America, Greenland, and Iceland. Page 6I. Insert:— II. THE GREATER BULLFINCH. pyrrhula pyrrhula. ..."

2. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... the egg said to be darker in colour than that of the last-named bird. THE BULLFINCHES. GENUS pyrrhula. pyrrhula, Briss., Orn., iii., p. 308 (1760). ..."

3. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York by N.Y. Lyceum of Natural History (New York, New York Academy of Sciences (1848)
"... of the Appearance of the PINE GROSBEAK, pyrrhula Enucleator, in the Environ» of New- ... pyrrhula ..."

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