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Any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
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grosbeak
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Wiktionary
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n. Any of several finches and cardinals that have a large, powerful bill
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Grosbeak is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks . Although they all belong to the superfamily Passeroidea , these birds are not part of a natural group but rather a polyphyletic assemblage of distantly ...
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n. any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill [syn: grossbeak ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, partial translation of French grosbec ; see gross + beak .
Usage examples of grosbeak.
Like Grosbeak, these people gathered information from their spies and sent it to Quedanga, who made sure that everyone who should see it did, including Aly.
Tammy said, as a thousand red-breasted grosbeaks settled like feathery locusts in the trees surrounding the clearing.
There were more birds: crows and robins, jays and grosbeaks, neocaths and nuthatches.
Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.
She talked to the grosbeak in exactly the same manner, as she laid strawberries and potato bugs on the fence for his family.
Then the grosbeaks, chats, and vireos had something to say, and the sun rose higher, the light grew stronger and the breeze rustled the treetops loudly.