belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Emberizinae, comprising the buntings, New World sparrows, and related birds.
–noun
2.
an emberizine bird.
Origin: < NL Emberizinae, equiv. to Emberiz(a) the bunting genus (< dial. G; cf. Swiss G Ämerzen, Imbrütze; OHG amarzo, amirzo, hypocoristic forms of amaro (> G Ammer bunting), short for *amarofogal lit., emmer-bird; see emmer, yellowhammer) + -inae-inae
[em-buh-rahy-zin, -zahyn] 
Ornithology