GROSBEAK
Dictionary entry overview: What does grosbeak mean? • GROSBEAK (noun)
The noun GROSBEAK has 1 sense:
1. any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
Familiarity information: GROSBEAK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GROSBEAK (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
grosbeak; grossbeak
Hypernyms ("grosbeak" is a kind of...):
finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grosbeak"):
evening grosbeak; Hesperiphona vespertina (North American grosbeak)
Coccothraustes coccothraustes; hawfinch (a common large finch of Eurasia)
pine grosbeak; Pinicola enucleator (large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds)
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