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Fringilla coelebs
Fringilla coelebs, the common chaffinch (Buchfink), is a widespread Eurasian and Macaronesian finch; a 2021 phylogenomic study proposes splitting it into five species.
Fringilla family
Fringilla family (FIN 623), asteroid family in the main belt named after (709) Fringilla; high-inclination X-type group in the pristine zone, split into the 1979 MM3 and 1998 HD130 families in 2024 catalogs.
Fringilla montifringilla
Fringilla montifringilla, the brambling (Bergfink, Pinson du Nord), is a northern Eurasian finch breeding in birch and boreal forest from Fennoscandia to Russia, wintering in huge nomadic flocks that follow beech mast crops, with roosts up to 20 million birds.
Fringillidae
Fringillidae, the true finches (including Hawaiian honeycreepers, synonym Drepanididae), is a passerine family of seed-eating songbirds with palatal grooves and a reduced 10th primary, split into Fringillinae, Euphoniinae, and Carduelinae, with Darwin's finches historically assigned to it.
Frinton-on-Sea
Frinton-on-Sea, Essex seaside resort on the Essex Sunshine Coast in Tendring District; planned late-19th-century railway resort for the upper-middle class, known for its sandy Blue Flag beach, beach huts, level crossing, and Frinton Summer Theatre.
Frippertronics
Frippertronics is Robert Fripp's tape-looping system using two linked Revox A77 recorders, learned from Brian Eno and first heard on No Pussyfooting (1973); performed solo publicly from February 1978 at The Kitchen, New York.
FripSide
fripSide (フリップサイド) is a Japanese digital J-POP unit formed in 2002 by Satoshi Yaginuma, with vocalists nao, then Yoshino Nanjō, and since 2022 Mao Uesugi and Hisayo Abe; known for "only my railgun" from A Certain Scientific Railgun.
Frisbee
Frisbee, also known as a flying disc, is a trademarked plastic disc first sold by Wham-O in 1957, the basis for sports including Ultimate and disc golf.
Frisco Jones and Felicia Cummings
Frisco Jones and Felicia Cummings are a divorced supercouple from ABC's General Hospital: Frisco, a singer-turned-cop and WSB spy (Jack Wagner, from January 1984), and Felicia, an Aztec princess (Kristina Wagner, from September 1984). They wed June 23, 1986, had daughters Maxie and Georgie, and separated; Felicia later married Mac Scorpio.
Frisco King
Frisco King (formerly NOLA King) is a 2026 Paramount+ crime drama-comedy, a Tulsa King spin-off starring Samuel L. Jackson as gangster Russell Lee Washington Jr. in Frisco, Texas; eight episodes written by Taylor Sheridan premiere December 18, 2026.
Frisco, Texas
Frisco, Texas: Collin County city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, founded 1902 as a St. Louis–San Francisco Railway town named Emerson; population grew from 116,989 (2010) to about 249,000, home of Toyota Stadium and Grand Park.
Frisia
Frisia: North Sea coastal region from North Holland through Friesland and Groningen to German East and North Frisia; home of the Frisians, medieval Frisian freedom, and three Frisian languages.
Frisian Islands
Frisian Islands, also called Wadden Islands: barrier island chain from the Netherlands through Germany to Denmark, divided into West, East, and North Frisian groups, sheltering the Wadden Sea UNESCO World Heritage tidal flats.
Frisian languages
Frisian languages (Frysk, Seeltersk, Friisk): West Germanic, North Sea Germanic group on the southern North Sea coast, closest relative of English. Three branches: West Frisian (~400,000 speakers, official in Fryslân), Saterland Frisian, North Frisian; not mutually intelligible.
Frisians
Frisians are a Germanic people of the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and Germany, first recorded by Tacitus, known for medieval Frisian freedom, Old Frisian law, and the West, East, North, and Sater Frisian languages.
Frisky Dingo
Frisky Dingo is an Adult Swim animated comedy (2006–2008, 25 episodes) by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, pitting supervillain Killface against the billionaire hero Awesome X; it was the forerunner of Archer and was canceled after two seasons.
Friso Emons
Friso Emons (born 1998, Tilburg) is a Dutch short-track speed skater, Olympic gold medalist in the 5000 m relay at Milano Cortina 2026, three-time European relay champion (2021, 2023, 2024), and 2022 world relay silver medalist.
Frisson
Frisson (French for shiver), also called aesthetic or musical chills, is a pleasurable psychophysiological response to music, films, poetry, and art, marked by spine chills, goosebumps, skin-conductance and heart-rate rises, and reward-circuit brain activity.
Frisson Noir
Frisson Noir is the tenth studio album by Finnish soprano Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish), released 12 June 2026 on earMUSIC; her heaviest record and first metal album since In the Raw (2019), with guests Dani Filth, Apocalyptica, Marko Hietala, and Chad Smith.
Frist Cressey Ventures
Frist Cressey Ventures is a Nashville venture capital firm investing in early-stage healthcare services and tech-enabled care delivery, founded in 2016 by Bill Frist and Bryan Cressey.
Frithiof Martensson
Frithiof Mårtensson (Folke Frithiof Martens Mårtensson, 1884–1956), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, IK Sparta Malmö; won 1908 Olympic middleweight gold at London, first Swedish Olympic wrestling champion.
Frithiofs saga
Frithiofs saga is a Swedish narrative poem by the poet and bishop Esaias Tegnér, published complete in 1825, retelling a medieval Icelandic saga of Frithiof and Ingeborg in varied verse forms.
Frithjof Sælen
Frithjof Sælen (Frithjof Olsen Sælen, 1892–1975) was a Norwegian gymnast who won Olympic gold in the 1912 team free system event and silver in 1920; his son of the same name wrote Snorre Sel.
Fritillaria
Fritillaria (fritillaries), genus of bulbous Liliaceae herbs native from NW Africa and temperate Eurasia to N Myanmar and Alaska to NW Mexico; ~175 species, huge genomes, medicinal bulbs, threatened Himalayan species.
Fritillariidae
Fritillariidae (Lohmann, 1915) is a family of appendicularian (larvacean) tunicates with genera Fritillaria, Tectillaria, and Appendicularia; marine planktonic filter feeders living outside mucous houses, with curved endostyles and rapid one-day development.
Fritiof Holmgren
Fritiof Holmgren (Alarik Frithiof Holmgren) was a Swedish physiologist at Uppsala University who in 1866 reported electrical changes in the eye and invented a wool-skein test for color blindness.
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson (1895–1972), was a Swedish author and lawyer whose humorous stories set in Skåne made him one of Sweden's most popular storytellers.
Fritiof S. Sjöstrand
Fritiof S. Sjöstrand (Fritiof Stig Sjöstrand, 1912–2011) was a Swedish physician and histologist who pioneered biological electron microscopy at the Karolinska Institute before moving to UCLA in 1959.
Fritjof Helmchen
Fritjof Helmchen is a German systems neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich, known for two-photon imaging of the living brain.
Frito pie
Frito pie, also called Fritos chili pie, is an American dish of Fritos corn chips topped with chili, cheese, and onions, served in a bag or baked as a casserole; its origin is disputed between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Texas.