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Definition of Greenfinches
1. greenfinch [n] - See also: greenfinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenfinches
Literary usage of Greenfinches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"The greenfinches have a very stout and conical bill, ... Five species of true
greenfinches are known, our English bird (L. chloris), which extends ..."
2. The Jones Readers by Grades by Lewis Henry Jones (1904)
"10 and then greenfinches, greenfinches, greenfinches. They were all facing
expectantly toward the arbor, hopping toward it, hesitating, hopping on again, ..."
3. The Jones Readers by Grades by Lewis Henry Jones (1904)
"and then greenfinches, greenfinches, greenfinches. They were all facing expectantly
toward the arbor, hopping toward it, hesitating, hopping on again, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1876)
"The greenfinches will do very well If supplied with hemp, linseed, the kernels
of junipers, unripe barley, turnip seeds, thistles, and salad. ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"An interesting note from a bird-dealer on 'British Birds in New Zealand,' states
that Goldfinches, Redpolls, Chaffinches, greenfinches, Hedge Sparrows, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... doubt whether to refer to the vicinity of the greenfinches or that of the
Redpolls. The Mountain- Finches (before named) may be regarded as pointing ..."
7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1892)
"I used to see great flocks of greenfinches, numbering many scores, ...
The greenfinches had, what a gardener of mine once termed, " a lavishing time of it" ..."
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