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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the house-finch, Carpodacus frontalis, an abundant and familiar fringilline bird of the southwestern United States, almost domesticated in the towns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (
Carpodacus frontalis ); -- called alsocrimson-fronted bullfinch .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis).
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