finch

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small songbird, typically with a short conical bill adapted for eating seeds

   A finch perched beside the feeder and cracked open a sunflower seed.

From Middle English fynch and Old English finc, from a Proto-Germanic name for the chaffinch. Cognates include Dutch vink and German Fink. The wider modern sense covers the true finches of the family Fringillidae and several similar seed-eating songbirds.

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