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finch

(fĭnch)

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)

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]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

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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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

pine finch, pine siskin, Spinus pinus - small finch of North American coniferous forests

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

junco, snowbird - small North American finch seen chiefly in winter

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

finch

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adjective fringilline

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Translations

شِرشير، عُصْفور غِرّيد

pěnkava

finke

Fink

σπίζα σπίνος

vint

peippo

pinson

pinty

finka

fringuello

kikilis

žubīte

pinka

ščinkavec

ispinoz

雀科鸣鸟雀类

finch

[fɪntʃ] N → pinzón m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

finch

n → Fink m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

finch

[fɪntʃ] n → fringillide m

finch

(fintʃ) noun

one of several kinds of small bird. a greenfinch.

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The Finches spent their money foolishly (the Hotel we dined at was in Covent-garden), and the first Finch I saw, when I had the honour of joining the Grove, was Bentley Drummle: at that time floundering about town in a cab of his own, and doing a great deal of damage to the posts at the street corners.

At Startop's suggestion, we put ourselves down for election into a club called The Finches of the Grove: the object of which institution I have never divined, if it were not that the members should dine expensively once a fortnight, to quarrel among themselves as much as possible after dinner, and to cause six waiters to get drunk on the stairs.

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Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial.

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It was to Wilson, his valet, with whom he frequently chatted in airy fashion before rising of a morning, that Rollo Finch first disclosed his great idea.

In just such a case was Rollo Finch. He had fancied that he had plenty of time.

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For, though bred a lawyer, and accustomed to speak of Bacon, Coke, Noye, and Finch, as his professional associates, the exigenties of this new country had transformed Governor Bellingham into a soldier, as well as a statesman and ruler.

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And then all my friends, without exception: Miss Kitty Upjohn, Miss Dora Finch, General Packard, C.

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The short-faced tumbler has a beak in outline almost like that of a finch; and the common tumbler has the singular and strictly inherited habit of flying at a great height in a compact flock, and tumbling in the air head over heels.

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Another year's instalment of flowers, leaves, nightingales, thrushes, finches, and such ephemeral creatures, took up their positions where only a year ago others had stood in their place when these were nothing more than germs and inorganic particles.

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Peter became very clever at helping the birds to build their nests; soon he could build better than a wood-pigeon, and nearly as well as a blackbird, though never did he satisfy the finches, and he made nice little water-troughs near the nests and dug up worms for the young ones with his fingers.

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Of birds we have three carrion hawks and in the valleys a few finches and insect-feeders.

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- US-based clinical-stage microbiome therapeutics company Finch Therapeutics Group, Inc has closed a USD 53m Series C financing, the company said.

Finch Therapeutics Raises USD 53m to Advance Microbiome-Based Therapies for Recurrent C. Difficile, Autism and other Disease Areas

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