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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 also cherry finch, and coble.

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

[haw + finch.]

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