spinus: ความหมายและคำอธิบายความหมาย

An old name of some small bird which feeds on seeds, as a thistle-bird, linnet, siskin, or bunting.

Hence A genus of thistle-birds named by Koch in 1816, containing the linnet, the siskin or aberdevine, the goldfinch, the redpoll, and others, both of Europe and of America.