chaffinch
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ɪntʃ noun
a common finch, Fringilla coelebs, of the Old World, often kept as a pet.
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| —n | |
| a common European finch, Fringilla coelebs, with black and white wings and, in the male, a reddish body and blue-grey head | |
| [Old English ceaffinc, from ceaf | |
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chaffinch
Fringilla cælebs, O.E. ceaffinc, lit. "chaff-finch," so called for its habit of eating waste grain on farms.
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Example sentences
When the chaffinch asks for cobweb she sees that she gets it.
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