Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic finches of the genera Carpodacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.
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- noun Any of the birds in the genus
Carpodacus of thefinch family.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Abundant species recorded during May to June include crested black tit Parus melanolophus, yellow-bellied fantail flycatcher Rhipidura hypoxantha, orange-flanked bush robin Erithacus cyanurus, bluefronted redstart Phoenicurus frontalis, Indian tree pipit Anthus hodgsoni, vinaceous breasted pipit A. roseatus, common rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus, and nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes.
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Birds seen included hoopoe, Tristram's grackle, Sinai rosefinch (the national bird of Jordan), green finch, honey buzzard and yellow vented bulbul.
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"During the survey I also found at least two species that had never been recorded in Afghanistan before -- one was a rosefinch and another was a snow cock.
Spero News 2010
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"During the survey I also found at least two species that had never been recorded in Afghanistan before -- one was a rosefinch and another was a snow cock.
Spero News 2010
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