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Chaffinch

noun
1.
Small European finch with a cheerful song.  Synonym: Fringilla coelebs.





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"Chaffinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... than to lack of intelligence. When the child of a year and a half offers leaves to a sheep or a stag, observes the strange animal with somewhat timid astonishment, and a few days after holds out some hastily plucked grass-blades to a chaffinch he sees hopping across the road, supposing that the bird will likewise take them from his hand and eat them—an observation that I made on my child exactly as Sigismund did on his—it is not right to call such an act "stupid"; ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
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Words linked to "Chaffinch" :   Fringilla coelebs, Fringilla, finch, genus Fringilla


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