finch

finch  (fnch)

n.

Any of various relatively small birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, sparrows, cardinals, grosbeaks, and canaries, having a short stout bill adapted for cracking seeds.

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[Middle English, from Old English finc.]

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finch

Noun

a small songbird with a short strong beak [Old English finc]

Thesaurus

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 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