chaffinch
/chaf-inch/US // ˈtʃæf ɪntʃ //UK // (ˈtʃæfɪntʃ) //
花鸡,糠雀,红腹锦鸡,糠鸡
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a common finch, Fringilla coelebs, of the Old World, often kept as a pet.
Examples
The Professor threw some crumbs to a chaffinch, which had flown down within a few yards of the tea-table.
Is not our own little goldfinch, is not the pert chaffinch that comes up to our very feet for a grain or a crumb, a pretty object?
There is no one to talk to except a chaffinch, who thinks of nothing but his appearance.
The decrease of the chaffinch is most regretted by the East-enders, who have an extraordinary admiration for that bird.
The chaffinch was very much in evidence, continually chaunting its unimportant little ditty.
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