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Trias greenfinches

Trias greenfinches is the plural of Trias greenfinch.

Meaning of Trias greenfinch

Noun

Trias greenfinch (plural Trias greenfinches)

  1. Chloris triasi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in La Palma in the Canary Islands.
    • La Palma had its own endemic species of greenfinch, the Trias Greenfinch, which also had short wings but a much larger head and bill than the European Greenfinch, and presumably also succumbed with the arrival of humans on its island.2018 May 15, John Bowler, Wildlife of Madeira and the Canary Islands: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Princeton University Press...

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What is Trias greenfinches the plural of?
Trias greenfinches is the plural of Trias greenfinch.

Words near Trias greenfinches in the dictionary

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  4. Trias
  5. Trias greenfinch
  6. Trias greenfinches
  7. Triases
  8. Triassic
  9. Triassic-Jurassic extinction event
  10. triathalon
  11. triathlete

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