| a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump. |
| house finch n. See linnet. |
lin·net  (lĭn'ĭt)  n.
[Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin līnum; see l  no- in Indo-European roots.] |