finch

English - Turkish

Definition of finch in English Turkish dictionary

saka

ispinoz

(isim) ispinoz

i., zool. ispinoz

Related Terms

desert finch

(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) boz alamecek

green finch

(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) yeşil ispinoz

green finch

(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) florya

snow finch

kar serçesi

green finch

yelve

white-winged Diuca finch

buzulkuşu

gold finch

altın finch

crimson winged finch

(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) pembe kanatlı ispinoz

trumpeter finch

küçük alamecek

English - English

Definition of finch in English English dictionary

Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak

To hunt for finches, to go finching

{n} a genus of birds with sharp conical bills

A finch is a small bird with a short strong beak. Any of various relatively small birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, sparrows, cardinals, grosbeaks, and canaries, having a short stout bill adapted for cracking seeds. Any of several hundred species of small, conical-billed, seed-eating songbirds (in several families), including the bunting, canary, cardinal, chaffinch, crossbill, Darwin's (Galapagos) finch, goldfinch, grass finch, grosbeak, sparrow, and weaver. Finches are small, compact birds 3-10 in. (10-27 cm) long. Most use their heavy bill to crack seeds; many also eat insects. Many finches are brightly coloured, often with shades of red and yellow. Found throughout the temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere and South America and in parts of Africa, finches are among the dominant birds in many areas, both in numbers of individuals and species. They are often kept as singing cage birds

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

{i} any of a number of small seed-eating songbirds

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ

Related Terms

Atticus Finch

An honest lawyer who defends the underprivileged and persecuted

zebra finch

A small Australasian weaverbird, Taeniopygia guttata, that has markings similar to a zebra

Darwin's finch

or Galápagos finch Any of 14 species (in three genera) of songbirds (family Fringillidae) whose adaptations to several ecological niches in the Galápagos Islands and Cocos Island gave Charles Darwin evidence for his thesis that "species are not immutable. " All the species are 4-8 in. (10-20 cm) long and brownish or black, but they differ greatly in the configuration of the bill, which is suited to each species' particular feeding habit

finches

plural of finch

house finch

small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico

purple finch

North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump

vida finch

The whidah bird

whydah finch

The whidah bird

zebra finch

A small Australian bird (Poephila guttata) having black and white striped markings and popular as a cage bird

zebra finch

small Australian weaverbird with markings like a zebra's

Turkish pronunciation

fînç

Pronunciation

/ˈfənʧ/ /ˈfɪnʧ/

Etymology

() Old English finċ, from Proto-Germanic *funkiz, funkjon (compare Dutch vink, German Fink), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos 'chaffinch' (compare Welsh pink 'finch', Ancient Greek spingos 'chaffinch', Russian penka 'wren', Sanskrit phingaka 'drongo, shrike').