a. [f. L. fringilla finch + -ACEOUS]. Pertaining to the finches (Webster, 1864). Fringillide [anglicized sing. form of mod.L. fringillidæ], a bird of the finch family. Fringilliform a. [-(I)FORM], finch-like (Cent. Dict.). Fringilline a. [-INE], of or pertaining to the finches.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlii. (1856), 390. I have spoken of the first renewal of migratory life, as seen in that familiar little fringillide, the snowbird.
1874. Coues, Birds N. W., 163. The Lark Bunting is one of the most singularly specialized of all our fringilline forms.
1893. W. H. Hudson, Idle Days in Patagonia, I. 15. The finest voiced of all the fringilline birds.
