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black-headed greenfinch

black-headed greenfinch noun: chloris ambigua, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to southeast Asia.

black-headed greenfinch: chloris ambigua, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to southeast Asia
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Noun

black-headed greenfinch (plural black-headed greenfinches)

  1. Chloris ambigua, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to southeast Asia.
    • Distinguished from Black-headed Greenfinch by lack of dark head pattern and warmer brown plumage.2000 June 8, John Ramsay MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, “Grey-capped Greenfinch”, in A Field Guide to the Birds of China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 498

black-headed greenfinch meaning in Indonesian and Vietnamese

black-headed greenfinch in Indonesian

Chloris ambigua
pipit-hijau kepala-hitam

black-headed greenfinch in Vietnamese

Chloris ambigua
sẻ thông đầu đen

Forms of black-headed greenfinch

pluralblack-headed greenfinches

Questions about black-headed greenfinch

What does black-headed greenfinch mean?
Black-headed greenfinch means chloris ambigua, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to southeast Asia.
What is black-headed greenfinch in Indonesian?
Black-headed greenfinch in Indonesian is pipit-hijau kepala-hitam. See Black-headed greenfinch meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is black-headed greenfinch?
Black-headed greenfinch is a noun.
What is the plural of black-headed greenfinch?
The plural of black-headed greenfinch is black-headed greenfinches.

Words near black-headed greenfinch in the dictionary

  1. black-headed
  2. black-headed bunting
  3. black-headed buntings
  4. black-headed duck
  5. black-headed ducks
  6. black-headed greenfinch
  7. black-headed greenfinches
  8. black-headed gull
  9. black-headed gulls
  10. black-headed parrot
  11. black-headed parrots

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