| 单词 | pied finch |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspied finch pied finch n. (a) British regional the chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs (now rare); cf. piefinch n.; †(b) the snow bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis (obsolete rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. VI. 264 It [sc. the chaffinch] generally lays five or six eggs, and in some parts of England it is called the pied finch. 1877 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire 154 Pied Finch, a chaffinch. 1889 Cent. Dict. at Finch Pied finch, (a) The chaffinch... (b) The snow-bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis. < as lemmas |
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