finch : Idioms & Phrases

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Bramble finch

  • . See Brambling.
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Canary finch

  • the canary bird.
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Copper finch

  • . (Zoöl.) See Chaffinch.
  • . See Chaffinch.
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Diamond finch

  • (Zoöl.), a small Australian sparrow, often kept in a cage. Its sides are black, with conspicuous white spots, and the rump is bright carmine.
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Fallow chat, Fallow finch

  • (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear.
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Finch falcon

  • (Zoöl.), one of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax.
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Grass finch

  • noun usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds
    grassfinch.
  • noun common North American finch noted for its evening song
    vesper sparrow; Pooecetes gramineus.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A common American sparrow (Poöcætes gramineus); called also vesper sparrow and bay-winged bunting. (b) Any Australian finch, of the genus Poëphila, of which several species are known.
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Horse finch

  • (Zoöl.), the chaffinch. Prov. Eng.
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House finch

  • noun small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
    linnet; Carpodacus mexicanus.
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  • (Zoöl.), the burion.
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indigo finch

  • noun small deep blue North American bunting
    Passerina cyanea; indigo bird; indigo bunting.
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java finch

  • noun small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields
    Java sparrow; ricebird; Padda oryzivora.
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Painted finch

  • . See Nonpareil.
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Pied finch

  • (Zoöl.) (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting . Prov. Eng.
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Pine finch

  • noun small finch of North American coniferous forests
    Spinus pinus; pine siskin.
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  • . (Zoöl.) See Pinefinch, in the Vocabulary.
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purple finch

  • noun North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump
    Carpodacus purpureus.
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Thistle finch

  • (Zoöl.), the goldfinch; so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. Prov. Eng.
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To pull a finch

  • to swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. Obs. "Privily a finch eke could he pull."
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vida finch

Vid"a finch`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The whidah bird.
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weaver finch

  • noun finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
    weaver; weaverbird.
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zebra finch

  • noun small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's
    Poephila castanotis.
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