Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bird (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) of Eurasia and North Africa having a thick bill, a short white-tipped tail, and brown, white, and black plumage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hawthorn-grosbeak, Coccothraustes vulgaris, a common European fringilline bird, about 6 inches long, with a very stout, turgid bill, the ends of the inner secondaries obliquely curved and truncated, and the plumage much variegated. See also cut under
Coccothraustes .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The common European grosbeak (
Coccothraustes vulgaris ); -- called alsocherry finch , andcoble .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
Eurasian finch , Coccothraustes coccothraustes, with a thick bill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common large finch of Eurasia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The books told me that a hawfinch could exert enough pressure with its beak to squeeze a cherry stone until it popped and surrendered its soft heart.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The most curious fact is the perfect gradation in the size of the beaks in the different species of Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and (if Mr. Gould is right in including his sub-group, Certhidea, in the main group) even to that of a warbler.
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The most curious fact is the perfect gradation in the size of the beaks in the different species of Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and (if Mr. Gould is right in including his sub-group, Certhidea, in the main group) even to that of a warbler.
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This and the two following numbers, 26 and 27, are only required for the humming birds; 28 is, however, a good size for the least. 24 will be found a good size for the smaller kinds of warblers and finches up to canaries. 21 is a useful general size for a great number of small birds, and will do for such a bird as the hawfinch.
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The eggs are not unlike those of the English hawfinch; the ground colour is pale greenish grey, blotched and spotted with blackish brown.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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The most curious fact is the perfect gradation in the size of the beaks in the different species of Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and (if Mr. Gould is right in including his sub-group, Certhidea, in the main group) even to that of a warbler.
Chapter XVII 1909
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Occasionally that shy bird, the hawfinch, is seen on a wet, quiet day picking up white-beam kernels and seeds.
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{101} The hawfinch-and _Sylvia-_types are figured in the _Journal of Researches_, p. 379.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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The most curious fact is the perfect gradation in the size of the beaks in the different species of Geospiza, from one as large as that of a hawfinch to that of a chaffinch, and (if Mr. Gould is right in including his sub-group, Certhidea, in the main group) even to that of a warbler.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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It is the call of the nightingale, and the cuckoo, the hawfinch, tree pipit and the lark.
The Guardian World News Laura Barton 2011
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