Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Any of several usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; they are often kept as cage birds.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A granivorous fringilline bird; any one of sundry species of Fringillidœ that live in the grass or feed on grass-seeds.
- n. One of various small old-world birds of the family Ploceidœ, and of the genera Spermestes, Amadina, and others.
- n. In Australia, any of the small finches of the genus Poephila.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds
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Examples
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Even the trills of the grassfinch and the song-sparrow have points of similarity; does that prove that they borrow from each other, or that espousals sometimes occur between the two species?
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A western grassfinch flew over to some bushes with a morsel in its bill, but I could not discover its nest or young, search as I would.
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