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finch

Definition:

any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

Class:

animal noun

Plural:

finches

Type of:

oscine » passerine » bird » vertebrate » chordate » animal » organism » living thing

Member of:

Fringillidae » Oscines » Passeriformes » Aves » Vertebrata » Chordata » Animalia

Original source:

WordNet

Examples:

brambling | bullfinch | bunting | canary | cardinal | chaffinch | crossbill | goldfinch | grosbeak | honeycreeper | house finch | junco | linnet | New World goldfinch | New World sparrow | pine siskin | purple finch | pyrrhuloxia | red siskin | redpoll | redpoll | serin | siskin | towhee

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