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Definition of Bullfinch

1. Noun. United States architect who designed the Capitol Building in Washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the United States (1763-1844).

2. Noun. Common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast.

Definition of Bullfinch

1. n. A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

Definition of Bullfinch

1. Noun. Any of various Old World finches in the genus ''Pyrrhula''. They are Passerine birds with thick bills. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bullfinch

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Medical Definition of Bullfinch

1. A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. Vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red. As a cage bird it is highly valued for its remarkable power of learning to whistle correctly various musical airs. Crimson-fronted bullfinch. See Burion. Pine bullfinch, the pine finch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Bullfinch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contemporary French Novelists: And Other Tales from India by William Henry Denham Rouse, William Crooke, William Heath Robinson, René Doumic, Mary D. Frost (1922)
"But the little bullfinch harmed nobody, unless it were a worm he would eat now and again for a treat. All day long he hopped about, picking up seeds, ..."

2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"223-Head of the bullfinch species, which is often kept in confinement, ... The bullfinch is an abundantly distributed bird in this country ..."

3. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1837)
"The Pine bullfinch is the largest of our Passerine species, ... In form it presents nothing that essentially differs from the Common bullfinch, ..."

4. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1852)
"A true "Bird of the green wood," the bullfinch avoids the more sterile, or the more highly cultivated districts; for here, as in so many other instances, ..."

5. The Nursery by Fanny P Seaverns, John L. Shorey (Firm (1870)
"AUNT MART'S bullfinch. EDITH has been to see her Aunt Mary's new bird. Aunt Mary brought it from Germany. It is a bullfinch. Here I show you a picture of it ..."

6. The Female Poets of Great Britain: Chronologically Arranged: with Copious by Frederic Rowton (1849)
"THE bullfinch IN TOWN. Hark to the blackbird's pleasing note, Sweet usher of the ... Yon bullfinch, with unvaried tone, Of cadence harsh, and accent shrill, ..."

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