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Definition of Hawfinch
1. Noun. A common large finch of Eurasia.
Generic synonyms: Grosbeak, Grossbeak
Group relationships: Coccothraustes, Genus Coccothraustes
Definition of Hawfinch
1. n. The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.
Definition of Hawfinch
1. Noun. A large Eurasian finch, ''Coccothraustes coccothraustes'', with a thick bill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hawfinch
1. a Eurasian finch [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Hawfinch
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawfinch
Literary usage of Hawfinch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1882)
"... the sides with a single plate, stout and shortish. Claws moderately curved,
rather short and strong. THE hawfinch was for a long time described in many ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"They at once met with favor, and about 100000 copies have been circulated in the
United States, and a larger number in Great Britain. A single hawfinch, a ..."
3. The Forest Trees of Britain by Charles Alexander Johns (1892)
"It was formerly believed that the hawfinch, a bird which derives its name from
... THE hawfinch. The Hawthorn attains a great age, and, when large enough to ..."
4. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston, William Jardine (1837)
"Notes on the hawfinch ... By HENRY DOUBLE- DAY, Esq. BY nearly all our writers
on ornithology, the hawfinch has been considered as only a visitor of the ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The common European hawfinch (C. vulgaris, Briss.) has a very large bill and
head, like other grosbeaks ; the neck is short and thick, and the body and ..."
6. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"It is a plentiful species in some districts of France, and is common in the
mountainous regions of Italy, in Germany, Sweden, and part of Russia, hawfinch ..."
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