Definition of Emberizidae

1. Noun. Buntings and some New World sparrows.


Definition of Emberizidae

1. n. a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emberizidae

Emajõgi
Emanuel
Emanuel Svedberg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Embadomonas
Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway
Embden-Meyerhof pathway
Embden ester
Ember Day
Emberings
Emberiza
Emberiza aureola
Emberiza citrinella
Emberiza hortulana
Emberiza schoeniclus
Emberizidae (current term)
Embiodea
Embioptera
Embiotocidae
Embothrium
Embothrium coccineum
Embu
Emerald
Emerald City
Emerald Isle
Emergency Alert System
Emerson
Emersonian
Emery
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy

Literary usage of Emberizidae

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

1. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"... and Emberizidae. The facts have been selected from a large body of valuable notes kindly sent me by him. The bullfinch makes his advances in front of ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... while the Buntings are here included in the Family, though often separated as Emberizidae. The most evident points of distinction in the 1 ..."

3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Many European ornithologists separate the Emberizidae, or.bun- tings, as a distinct family, but as the American genera have not been so divided I am obliged ..."

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