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Greenfinch n. (Zool.)

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.

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Etymology of 'Greenfinch'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Greenfinch" Quotes from Famous Books

... peacock; albino birds in a state of nature have never been seen paired with other birds; a Canada goose paired with a Bernicle gander; a male widgeon preferred a pintail duck to its own species; a hen canary preferred a male greenfinch to either linnet, goldfinch, siskin, or chaffinch. These cases are evidently exceptional, and are not such as generally occur in nature; and they only prove that the female does exert some choice between very different males, and some ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... Lady Scapegrace; and if she brought Frank Lovell home in her carriage, or went to the opera alone with Count Coquin, or was seen, day after day, perambulating Kensington Gardens arm in arm with young Greenfinch of the Life Guards, instead of shouting and hissing, and, so to speak, pelting her off the stage, the world lifted its fingers to its lips, shrugged up its worldly shoulders, and ...

— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville