greenfinch

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹiːn.fɪnt͡ʃ/    美 /ˈɡɹiːn.fɪnt͡ʃ/|/ˈɡɹin.fɪnt͡ʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Eurasia.
    — The Vietnamese Greenfinch is the only greenfinch found in the Da Lat area, and as such is unmistakeable.
  2. Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Eurasia.; European greenfinch, a common Old World finch (Chloris chloris, syn. Carduelis chloris,Fringilla Chloris),mainly green with yellow in the wings and tail.
  3. A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment. Northern-Ireland,historical,informal
  4. A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.; A female member of the Royal Irish Regiment. Northern-Ireland,UK,broadly,historical,informal

词形变化

greenfinches plural

词汇关系

上位词
finch passerine songbird bird
下位词
black-headed greenfinch Bonin greenfinch European greenfinch grey-capped greenfinch Oriental greenfinch slender-billed greenfinch Trias greenfinch Vietnamese greenfinch yellow-breasted greenfinch

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
English greenfinch
Compound of green + finch.
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