Crossword-Solution: HAWFINCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hawfinch | n. | The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “HAWFINCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| COCCOTHRAUSTES coccothraustes | 1 answer |
| European finch with a stout bill and brown plumage with black-and-white wings | 1 answer |
| grosbeak | 2 answers |
| Asian bird | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with HAWFINCH (5)
Occasionally that shy bird, the hawfinch, is seen on a wet, quiet day picking up white-beam kernels and seeds.
Pennant observes that the hoopoe, chatterer, hawfinch, and crossbill, migrate into England so rarely, and at such uncertain times, as not to deserve to be ranked among our birds of passage, (ibid.
The eggs are not unlike those of the English hawfinch; the ground colour is pale greenish grey, blotched and spotted with blackish brown.
Fred shouted out with the pain, but he had grown more stoical since his sojourn in the country, and he held on tightly to his prize, which Harry declared, when he saw it, was a chaffinch with a swelled head; but afterwards, when they brought it to Mr Inglis, he told the boys it was a fine male specimen of the hawfinch, or grosbeak, rather a rare bird in the British Isles.
The crushing habit of a bird such as the Hawfinch (_Coccothraustes coccothraustes_), on the other hand, involves extremely powerful gripping (see, for example, Sims, 1955); the contrast is apparent in the development of the jaw musculature in the two types.