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Definition of Grosbeaks
1. grosbeak [n] - See also: grosbeak
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grosbeaks
Literary usage of Grosbeaks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"It may be recalled that Evening grosbeaks ... Evening grosbeaks at Princeton,
New Jersey.—A flock of four Evening grosbeaks ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"1., which perhaps do not differ from each other, are not widow-birds, but common
grosbeaks. There is a gradual passage, and without any assignable interval, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"until near Christmas-time, when they began to appear like adult male grosbeaks
in full spring plumage. I was not a little chagrined that during September ..."
4. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1901)
"... Dmes and grosbeaks. The lark and flicker. (Unary bird and is also duller in
coloring, bnt in other respects he seems not different. ..."
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