fringillid

 [frin-jil-id]  

frin·gil·lid

   [frin-jil-id]
adjective
1.
Also, frin·gil·line  [frin-jil-ahyn, -in] belonging or pertaining to the family Fringillidae, comprising the finches and related birds.
noun
2.
a fringillid bird.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Origin:
1850–55; < Neo-Latin Fringillidae name of family, equivalent to Latin fringill(a) chaffinch + -idae -id2
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fringilline or fringillid (frɪnˈdʒɪlaɪn, -ɪn, frɪnˈdʒɪlɪd)
 
—adj
of, relating to, or belonging to the Fringillidae, a family of songbirds that includes the finches
 
[C19: from New Latin Fringilla type genus, from Latin fringilla a small bird, perhaps a chaffinch]
 
fringillid or fringillid
 
—adj
 
[C19: from New Latin Fringilla type genus, from Latin fringilla a small bird, perhaps a chaffinch]

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