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Complete Definition of "finch"

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English
Image:Chaffinch_%28aka%29.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Fringilla coelebs

Etymology
Old English finc|finċ.

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪntʃ|-ɪntʃ

Noun
finch (plural finches)

  1. Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the northern hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

Translations

Albanian:trishtil
Belarussian: берасьцянка
Czech: pěňkava
Dutch: vink m
Esperanto: fringo
Estonian: vint
Faroese: ígða f
Finnish: peippo
French: pinson
German: Fink m
Greek: σπίνος (spinos) m, σπίζα (spiza) f
Hungarian: pinty
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Latin: fringilla f
Lithuanian: kikilis m
Low Saxon: Fink m
Old English: finc|finċ m
Polish: zięba
Russian: зяблик
Slovene: ščinkavec m
Spanish: pinzón m

Derived terms
bullfinch
chaffinch
crimson-winged finch
desert finch
goldfinch
gold-naped finch
greenfinch
hawfinch
mountain finch
oriole finch
red-browed finch
rosefinch
scarlet finch
spectacled finch
trumpeter finch

See also
brambling
crossbill
redpoll
serin
siskin

Verb
en-verb

  1. To hunt for finches, to go finching.

Category:Birds

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