finches Definition

any of numerous passerine songbirds (families Fringillidae, Estrildidae, Emberizidae, and Cardinalidae) having a short stout usually conical bill adapted for crushing seeds

finches of a subfamily (Geospizinae) having great variation in bill shape and confined mostly to the Galápagos Islands

a small finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) that has a male with a red head, breast, and rump and that is native to Mexico and the western U.S. and has been introduced in the eastern U.S.

a finch (Carpodacus purpureus) of the U.S. and Canada having in the male a rosy-red head, breast, and rump

a small Australian waxbill (Taeniopygia guttata synonym Poephila guttata) that is chiefly gray above and white below with a red or orange bill, a black-and-white barred tail, and in the male a black-barred throat and that is often kept as a cage bird