pine grosbeak

pine grosbeak
noun
large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds
Hypernyms: ↑grosbeak, ↑grossbeak
Member Holonyms: ↑Pinicola, ↑genus Pinicola

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noun also pine bullfinch
: a large grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) of coniferous forests of northern America, Europe, and Asia that is chiefly gray with the crown, rump, and breast strongly suffused with rosy red in the adult male and yellow in the female

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a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
[1765-75, Amer.]

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pine grosbeak,
a finch about the size of a robin, living in the northern and mountainous regions of Europe and North America. The male has rosy plumage.

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  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage. [1765 75, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

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