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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024em•ber•i•zine (em′bə rī′zin, -zīn),USA pronunciation [Ornith.]adj. - Birdsbelonging or pertaining to the subfamily Emberizinae, comprising the buntings, New World sparrows, and related birds.
n. - Birdsan emberizine bird.
- dialect, dialectal German; compare Swiss German Ämerzen, Imbrütze; Old High German amarzo, amirzo, hypocoristic forms of amaro (German Ammer bunting), short for *amarofogal literally, emmer-bird; see emmer, yellowhammer) + -inae -inae
- Neo-Latin Emberizinae, equivalent. to Emberiz(a) the bunting genus (
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