black-headed greenfinch

noun

Chloris ambigua, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to southeast Asia.

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Meanings

nounblack-headed greenfinch (plural black-headed greenfinches)

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

Translations

Catalan verdum capnegre
  • verdum capnegreChloris ambigua
German Schwarzkopf-Grünfink
  • Schwarzkopf-GrünfinkChloris ambigua
Indonesian pipit-hijau kepala-hitam
  • pipit-hijau kepala-hitamChloris ambigua
Ukrainian зеленяк чорноголовий
  • зеленяк чорноголовий (zelenjak čornoholovyj)Chloris ambigua
Vietnamese sẻ thông đầu đen
  • sẻ thông đầu đenChloris ambigua
Welsh llinos werdd Yunnan
  • llinos werdd YunnanChloris ambigua
Cite this entry
APA

black-headed greenfinch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black-headed%20greenfinch

MLA

“black-headed greenfinch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black-headed%20greenfinch. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black-headed greenfinch,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black-headed%20greenfinch.

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