FINCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finch mean? 

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

1. any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINCH (noun)

Meaning:

Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

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Nouns denoting animals

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

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finch"):

Hawaiian honeycreeper; honeycreeper (small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands)

serin (any of various brown and yellow finches of pats of Europe)

crossbill; Loxia curvirostra (finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed)

bullfinch; Pyrrhula pyrrhula (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; cardinal grosbeak; Cardinalis cardinalis; redbird; Richmondena Cardinalis (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)

canary; canary bird (any of several small Old World finches)

Carpodacus purpureus; purple finch (North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump)

Carpodacus mexicanus; house finch; linnet (small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico)

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; linnet; lintwhite (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)

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

family Fringillidae; Fringillidae (finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings)