finch
finch
Definition
finch (finc̸h)
noun
any of various small, short-beaked, seed-eating passerine birds (esp. family Fringillidae), including redpolls, canaries, crossbills, goldfinches, and chaffinches
Etymology: ME < OE finc, akin to Ger fink < IE echoic base *(s)pingo-, chirping bird > Welsh pink, Gr spingos, finch
finch
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- see: We hardly saw any finches at Holmes Jungle or passerines of any type at Knuckey Lagoons.
- breed: In the breeding season, many beginners start off by breeding Bengalese Finches on a colony basis.
- include: There are sections on eight different types of bird, including Darwins finches.
- have: Well, a couple of years ago, i wrote a letter that i never sent, and the stamp had finches on it.
- seed-eating: The seed heads remain through the winter, the seeds providing food for the seed-eating finches during the winter.
Preposition: on
- island: The finches on the islands interested him even more.
Adjective modifier
- Bengalese: Bengalese Finches lay between three to eight eggs in each clutch with an average of five.
- Australian: Australian finches are very engaging little birds which can provide many hours of enjoyment.
- female: Are female zebra finches, when choosing a mate, influenced by the color bands on the legs of the males.
- green: The Red faced Parrot Finch is a little green finch with a red face and a very popular finch in a mixed collection.
- small: A single small finch flying over which might have been one!
- few: A few more finches are flying around, some dropping into the dense scrub beneath us, presumably to roost.
Modifies a noun
- specie: Geospiza fortis lives on the Galapagos islands along with fourteen other finch species.
- family: Finch Fountain has 17 different sets of the finch family, including finches, weavers and whydahs.
- seed: Is the best way to feed your own finch seed mix to suit your own birds ' tastes?
Noun used with modifier
- zebra: The zebra finches have produced a number of chicks adding to their number.
- trumpeter: Trumpeter Finches were much in evidence, drinking from a dripping tap next to the path in the Valley of the Queens.
- gold: Dragonfly Flight Times Pretty young Gold finches were in the bushes on the railroad track south of Old Shoreham.
- snow: I got out of the car and walked toward the damp area; about 15 white-winged snow finches flew away.
- winter: Most of the winter finches were not to be seen.
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