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Meanings of chaffinch in inglês

português
tentilhão
catalão
pinsà

Small European finch with a cheerful song.

tentilhão
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Usage of chaffinch in inglês
1
I was astonished to see him back; so, apparently, was the chaffinch.
Afoot in England
2
This spring a chaffinch built a nest in one of my yew-trees.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
3
A chaffinch clung to the bough, and swung to and fro singing.
Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
4
He had, besides canaries, the thrush, chaffinch, linnet, goldfinch and cirl bunting.
Birds in Town & Village
5
The chaffinch was very much in evidence, continually chaunting its unimportant little ditty.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
6
How curious is the structure of the nest of the goldfinch or chaffinch!
The Illustrated London Reading Book
7
The chaffinch, I think, is the commonest bird in this part of the country.
The Pleasures of Ignorance
8
A chaffinch robs a car (the last two might not be true).
The Irish Times
9
A solitary male chaffinch keeps flying at our bedroom window and pecking the glass.
The Irish Times
10
The chaffinch gave a light chirp, as if to recall him to his duty.
The Daughters of Danaus
11
A female chaffinch had flown into a window and died.
The Irish Times
12
Don't you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood.
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
13
A chaffinch came hopping along, picked up a seed, looked around him, and flew away.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
14
Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away!
Grimm's Fairy Stories
15
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
The Poetry Of Robert Browning
16
A chaffinch (now called Bill) who comes to my garden for birdseed is extraordinarily tame.
The Irish Times
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tentilhão
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