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grass finch

or grassfinch

noun

  1. any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
  2. the vesper sparrow.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grass finch1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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Example Sentences

I believe the bird was called the grass finch by our earlier writers.

How welcome, too, were the hearty music of the robin and the carol of the grass finch!

The grass finches, the vireos, the wrens, and the linnets have joined their voices to the chorus, and the bobolinks are loudest in their song.

What was especially interesting was that the lark had "singled out with affection" one of our native birds, and the one that most resembled its kind, namely, the vesper sparrow, or grass finch.

In one of the stumpy fields I saw an old favorite in the grass finch or vesper swallow.

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