Definition of "greenfinches" [greenfinches]

• Plural form of greenfinch. (noun)

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• "Their absence has triggered a flurry of letters and emails to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds from anxious householders disconcerted by the absence of blue tits, greenfinches, chaffinches and house sparrows from suburban Britain."
• "He heard a clutch of young greenfinches squealing for food in a hazel thicket."
• "Thousands of birds, the lories, and greenfinches, and gold-winged pigeons, not to speak of the noisy paroquets, flew about in the green branches."