Crossword clues for goldfinch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goldfinch \Gold"finch`\, n. [AS. goldfinc. See Gold, and Finch.] (Zo["o]l.)
A beautiful bright-colored European finch ( Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
The yellow-hammer.
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A small American finch ( Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Note: The name is also applied to other yellow finches, esp. to several additional American species of Spinus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small passerine bird of the finch family; the (vern: European goldfinch), ''Carduelis carduelis'', the (vern: American goldfinch), (taxlink Carduelis tristis species noshow=1), (vern: Lawrence's goldfinch), (taxlink Carduelis lawrencei species noshow=1), or the (vern: lesser goldfinch), (taxlink Carduelis psaltria species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer [syn: New world goldfinch, yellowbird, Spinus tristis]
small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings [syn: Carduelis carduelis]
Wikipedia
Goldfinch may refer to:
- The bird species from the genus Carduelis:
- European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis
- Any of the following bird species from the genus Spinus:
- American goldfinch, Spinus tristis
- Lawrence's goldfinch, Spinus lawrencei
- Lesser goldfinch, Spinus psaltria
- Distelfink, a goldfinch in Pennsylvania Dutch folk art
- Gloster Goldfinch, a British fighter aircraft
- The Goldfinch (painting), a 1654 painting by Carel Fabritius
- The Goldfinch (novel), a 2013 novel by Donna Tartt
Usage examples of "goldfinch".
She felt like a universal pet, and the second she voiced that thought to herself, Pantalaimon stretched his goldfinch wings and chirruped loudly.
A moment after that she was through and pulling it quietly shut, and with Pantalaimon a goldfinch again, she ran for the stairs and fled.
Thus lightly and reverently has the master touched the mystery of the Blessed Trinity: the goldfinch symbolizing by its colours, the trefoil by the form of its leaf.
From time beyond remembrance the goldfinch or swallow, or any one of the migrating birds has made his two yearly journeys from one land to another--one way in the spring, the other in the fall.
His face expressed nothing but self-satisfaction, and he appeared to take life as calmly as the goldfinch suspended over his head in its wicker cage: this was the chemist.
I tell them how the goldfinch builds its nest, and how the bees make honey.
As the couple walked up to their Buick, two mockingbirds flew away from its grill, one of them tweeting in a little-known dialect of the goldfinch, the other mixing a catbird cry with a raspy chord borrowed from a woodpecker.
Jean, my servant, had a goldfinch in a cage hung in the office window.
Even, and especially, Sapientia, dressed in all the finery appropriate to a noblewoman, looked as insignificant as a goldfinch perched next to a mighty dragon.
Lily pointed to an ordinary goldfinch fluttering at the echinacea as a further diversion.
Sir, we will acknowledge your service, doubt not -- henceforth, you shall be no more Asotus to us, but our goldfinch, and we your cages.
The cardinal noticed six goldfinches talking with animation to one another down in the old holly bushes.
It led them into new, unexplored nooks of the woods, past a red-poll nest, and where goldfinches prospected for thistledown for the cradles they would line a little later.
The branches were filled with goldfinches, all twittering as they hopped from limb to limb.
At one time, according to Lady Hesketh, he had besides two dogs, two goldfinches, and two canaries, five rabbits, three hares, two guinea-pigs, a squirrel, a magpie, a jay, and a starling.