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Definition: Goldfinch |
GoldfinchNoun1. American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer. 2. Small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goldfinch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Goldfinch \Gold"finch`\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression goldfinc. See Gold, and Finch.]. (references) |
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Slang in 1811 | GOLDFINCH. One who has commonly a purse full of gold. Goldfinches; guineas. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Goldfinch Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Fringillidae Genus: Carduelis Species: carduelis Binomial name Carduelis carduelis The Goldfinch or European Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis, is a small passerine bird of the finch family.
The Goldfinch breeds across Europe and most of Asia in open partially wooded lowlands. It is resident in the milder west of its range, but migrates from colder regions. It will also make local movements, even in the west, to escape bad weather.
Its red face and black and white head make this finch unmistakeable. It is the red that gives the genus Carduelis its name from the colour worn by cardinalss. Ironically, the dominant colour on all the birds in this genus is actually yellow.
The food is small seeds such as thistles and teasels, but insects are also taken. The song is a pleasant silvery twittering. The nest is in a tree.
See also American Goldfinch
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "European Goldfinch."
Synonym: GoldfinchSynonym: yellowbird (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goldfinch |
| English words defined with "goldfinch": Aber-de-vine ♦ Goldie ♦ Thistle bird, thistle finch. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "goldfinch": Redcap. (references) |
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| "Goldfinch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Goldfinch" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
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Expression using "goldfinch": new world goldfinch. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "goldfinch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gardalinë, peshk i kuq (goldfish). (various references) | |
Arabic | الحسون طائر من العصافير. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | pomíísisttsii. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | щиглец, кадънка. (various references) | |
Cornish | owrdynk. (various references) | |
Czech | stehlík. (various references) | |
Danish | stillits. (various references) | |
Dutch | putter. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kardelo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | reyðkollur. (various references) | |
French | chardonneret. (various references) | |
German | distelfink, stieglitz. (various references) | |
Greek | καρδερίνα (yellowbird). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוחית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tengelice, sármány (bunting). (various references) | |
Italian | cardellino (d). (various references) | |
Manx | lossey ny keylley, kiark my ven seyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldfinchgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pintassilgo (yellow bird). (various references) | |
Russian | щегол. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlatnik (ducket, pistole), češljugar (siskin). (various references) | |
Spanish | jilguero. (various references) | |
Swedish | steglits (redcap). (various references) | |
Thai | นกตระกูล Carduelis. (various references) | |
Turkish | saka kuşu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щиголь (flick, flip). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acalanthis, carduelis, Carduelis carduelis, RM:chardelin. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "goldfinch": goldfinches. (additional references) | |
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"Goldfinch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goldfinks, Goldich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-f-g-h-i-l-n-o" | |
-2 letters: codling, folding, glochid, holding, lingcod. | |
-3 letters: coding, codlin, doling, flinch, holing, infold. | |
-4 letters: child, chino, cling, coign, colin, dingo, doing, dolci, filch, finch, fling, flong, gonif, incog, indol, lingo, logic, nicol, ohing. | |
-5 letters: chid, chin, chon, cion, clod, clog, clon, coif, coil, coin, cold, coni, ding, diol, dong, fico, fido, filo, find, fino, flic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-f-g-h-i-l-n-o" | |
+2 letters: goldfinches. | |
+4 letters: childproofing. | |
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