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estrildine

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es⋅tril⋅did

  [es-tril-did] Ornithology
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the family Estrildidae, comprising the grass finches, waxbills, mannikins, and other small finches.
–noun
2. a bird of the family Estrildidae.
Also, es⋅tril⋅dine  [es-tril-dahyn, -din] .

Origin:
< NL Estrildidae, equiv. to Estrild(a) the type genus (from the Linnaean specific name Astrild < Sw: the god of love, literary coinage based on ON ástareldr lit., love-fire; the bird was appar. so named from its red bill) + -idae -id 2
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