GROSSBEAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grossbeak mean? 

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

1. any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROSSBEAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

grosbeak; grossbeak

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grossbeak"):

evening grosbeak; Hesperiphona vespertina (North American grosbeak)

Coccothraustes coccothraustes; hawfinch (a common large finch of Eurasia)

pine grosbeak; Pinicola enucleator (large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds)