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chaffinch
[ chaf-inch ]
noun
- a common finch, Fringilla coelebs, of the Old World, often kept as a pet.
chaffinch
/ ˈtʃæfɪntʃ /
noun
- a common European finch, Fringilla coelebs, with black and white wings and, in the male, a reddish body and blue-grey head
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Example Sentences
The Professor threw some crumbs to a chaffinch, which had flown down within a few yards of the tea-table.
Is not our own little goldfinch, is not the pert chaffinch that comes up to our very feet for a grain or a crumb, a pretty object?
There is no one to talk to except a chaffinch, who thinks of nothing but his appearance.
The decrease of the chaffinch is most regretted by the East-enders, who have an extraordinary admiration for that bird.
The chaffinch was very much in evidence, continually chaunting its unimportant little ditty.
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