CHAFFINCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chaffinch mean? 

• CHAFFINCH (noun)
  The noun CHAFFINCH has 1 sense:

1. small European finch with a cheerful song

  Familiarity information: CHAFFINCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAFFINCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small European finch with a cheerful song

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chaffinch; Fringilla coelebs

Hypernyms ("chaffinch" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("chaffinch" is a member of...):

Fringilla; genus Fringilla (type genus of the Fringillidae: chaffinch, brambling)

 Context examples 

So he looked up, and said to the second son, “At the top of this tree there is a chaffinch’s nest; tell me how many eggs there are in it.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)