The meaning of FINCH is any of numerous passerine songbirds (families Fringillidae, Estrildidae, Emberizidae, and Cardinalidae) having a short stout usually conical bill adapted for crushing seeds.
chaffinch(n.) Fringilla cælebs, common European bird "with pretty plumage and pleasant short song" [OED], Old Englishceaffinc, literally "chaff-finch," said to be so called because it eats waste grain among the chaff on farms in winter. Seechaff+finch. ...
chaffinch(n.) Fringilla cælebs, common European bird "with pretty plumage and pleasant short song" [OED], Old Englishceaffinc, literally "chaff-finch," said to be so called because it eats waste grain among the chaff on farms in winter. Seechaff+finch. ...