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CHAFFINCH

Dictionary entry overview: What does chaffinch mean?

• CHAFFINCH (noun)
The noun CHAFFINCH has 1 sense:

1. small European finch with a cheerful song

Familiarity information: CHAFFINCH used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHAFFINCH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small European finch with a cheerful song

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chaffinch; Fringilla coelebs

Hypernyms ("chaffinch" is a kind of...):

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

Holonyms ("chaffinch" is a member of...):

Fringilla; genus Fringilla (type genus of the Fringillidae: chaffinch, brambling)

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