Finch

What do we mean by finch?

Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, siskins, and canaries, having a short stout bill used for cracking seeds. noun

Any of various birds of the families Cardinalidae and Emberizidae, including the sparrows, cardinals, and grosbeaks, having a similar bill. noun

The chaffinch; any bird of the genus Fringilla or family Fringillidæ, of which the species are very numerous; a bunting, sparrow, grosbeak, etc. See Fringillidæ. noun

Any small conirostral oscine passerine bird, as of the family Ploceidæ or Tanagridæ; a weaver-bird or tanager. noun

Loosely, in composition, some other small bird, as the fallow-finch. noun

Peucæa cassini, a kind of summer finch of southwestern parts of the United States: named for the same. noun

The yellow-hammer. noun

The Texas sparrow, Embernagra rufovirgata. See Embernagra. noun

A misnomer of the Canadian sparrow or tree-sparrow, Spizella monticola. noun

The snow-bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis, in the plumage of winter, or of the female and young male. noun

The pine-siskin, Chrysomitris pinus: so called from its fondness for the seeds of the pine. noun

An obsolete contracted form of finish.

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ. noun

See Brambling. noun

The canary bird. noun

See Chaffinch. noun

See under Diamond. noun

One of several very small East Indian falcons of the genus Hierax. noun

To swindle an ignorant or unsuspecting person. noun

Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak. noun

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

Words that are spelled similarly to finch:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word finch:
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Words that rhyme with finch:
pinch, cinch, inch, flinch, hinch, clinch, winch, tinch, lynch, synch, grinch, minch, sinch, goldfinch, chinch, linch, kinch, column inch, double clinch, lip synch, pounds per square inch, acre inch, cubic inch, bits per inch, bulfinch, square inch, new world goldfinch, outside clinch, inside clinch, mcninch.

Adjectives that are often used to describe finch:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective finch:
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Words that sound like finch:
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