Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small European songbird (Fringilla coelebs) having reddish-brown plumage and a blue-gray cap in the male.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common European bird of the genus Fringilla, F. cœlebs, whose pleasant short and oft-repeated song is heard from early spring to the middle of summer.
- noun A name of the Australian birds of the genus Chloëbia, as C. gouldiæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A bird of Europe (
Fringilla cœlebs ), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called alsocopper finch .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
passerine bird, Fringilla coelebs, of thefinch family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small European finch with a cheerful song
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In a low tree I spotted a female chaffinch, which is one of the most common birds in Europe and is all but absent in Malta, owing to the country's widespread illegal finch trapping.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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In a low tree I spotted a female chaffinch, which is one of the most common birds in Europe and is all but absent in Malta, owing to the country's widespread illegal finch trapping.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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House birds like the blue tit or the chaffinch eat seeds or insects, which are easy to find in the countryside when the weather is mild, as it has been for this winter so far.
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The warbling of a chaffinch flitting through the bushes.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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The warbling of a chaffinch flitting through the bushes.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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The warbling of a chaffinch flitting through the bushes.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Birds (12) buzzard; hobby; wood pigeon; crow; chiffchaff; blackbird; chaffinch; grey heron; gull (unspecified); green woodpecker; magpie; owl (unspecified);
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Sparrows at the top end of a hedge, chaffinch in the middle and yellowhammers at the far end kept their abrasive little calls to themselves, flying only short loops from the hedge as if they knew the wind would sweep them away on its fierce currents to the east.
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The chaffinch is best heard in isolation at between 1:49-1:51.
Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species 2010
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All the flower colours here come from green, as do the songs of willow warbler, chaffinch and skylark.
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