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finch
(fĭnch)n.
1. Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, siskins, and canaries, having a short stout bill used for cracking seeds.
2. Any of various birds of the families Cardinalidae and Emberizidae, including the sparrows, cardinals, and grosbeaks, having a similar bill.
[Middle English, from Old English finc.]
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finch
(fɪntʃ)n
1. (Animals) any songbird of the family Fringillidae, having a short stout bill for feeding on seeds and, in most species, a bright plumage in the male. Common examples are the goldfinch, bullfinch, chaffinch, siskin, and canary
2. (Animals) any of various similar or related birds
[Old English finc; related to Old High German finko, Middle Dutch vinker, Greek spingos]
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finch
(fɪntʃ)n.
any of various small songbirds of the families Emberizidae,Fringillidae, and Estrildidae that have a short conical bill adapted for eating seeds.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English finc]
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Noun | 1. | finch - any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus family Fringillidae, Fringillidae - finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs - small European finch with a cheerful song brambling, Fringilla montifringilla - Eurasian finch Carduelis carduelis, goldfinch - small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings Carduelis cannabina, lintwhite, linnet - small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead Carduelis spinus, siskin - small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak Carduelis cucullata, red siskin - South American species of scarlet finch with black head and wings and tail Carduelis flammea, redpoll - small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump Carduelis hornemanni, redpoll - small siskin-like finch with a red crown goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird - American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer Carpodacus mexicanus, house finch, linnet - small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico Carpodacus purpureus, purple finch - North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump canary bird, canary - any of several small Old World finches serin - any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe crossbill, Loxia curvirostra - finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed Pyrrhula pyrrhula, bullfinch - common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast New World sparrow - sparrow-like North American finches bunting - any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America grosbeak, grossbeak - any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, Richmondena Cardinalis, redbird, cardinal - crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male pyrrhuloxia, Pyrrhuloxia sinuata - crested grey-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico towhee - any of numerous long-tailed American finches Hawaiian honeycreeper, honeycreeper - small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands |
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finch
nounRelated words
adjective fringilline
adjective fringilline
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Translations
شِرشير، عُصْفور غِرّيد
pěnkava
finke
vint
peippo
pinty
finka
kikilis
žubīte
pinka
ščinkavec
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finch
n → Fink m
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finch
[fɪntʃ] n → fringillide mCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
finch
(fintʃ) noun one of several kinds of small bird. a greenfinch.
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