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Definition of Emberizidae
1. Noun. Buntings and some New World sparrows.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Family Fringillidae, Fringillidae
Member holonyms: Genus Passerina, Passerina, Emberiza, Genus Emberiza, Genus Plectrophenax, Plectrophenax
Definition of Emberizidae
1. n. a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emberizidae
Literary usage of Emberizidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"... and Emberizidae. The facts have been selected from a large body of valuable
notes kindly sent me by him. The bullfinch makes his advances in front of ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... while the Buntings are here included in the Family, though often separated as
Emberizidae. The most evident points of distinction in the 1 ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Many European ornithologists separate the Emberizidae, or.bun- tings, as a distinct
family, but as the American genera have not been so divided I am obliged ..."
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