serinus

English Thesaurus

1. Old World finches; e.g. canaries and serins (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bird genus,
definition	:	a genus of birds (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	canary, canary bird,
definition	:	any of several small Old World finches (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	serin,
definition	:	any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family fringillidae, fringillidae,
definition	:	finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings (noun.animal)