FINCH
What does "FINCH" mean?
A small seed-eating songbird with a short, stout, conical bill.
Meanings
- Any of many small passerine birds of the family Fringillidae and related groups, having a thick bill adapted for cracking seeds. A goldfinch and a house finch were squabbling over the feeder.
Did you know?
- The 'Darwin's finches' of the Galapagos, whose beaks vary by diet from island to island, became a textbook emblem of natural selection - though Darwin himself misidentified some of them as wrens and blackbirds at first.
Word origin
From Old English 'finc', from a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'Fink', Dutch 'vink'), possibly echoing the bird's chirping call.
Remember it
FINCH = a bird you'd FIND in a CHurch garden: F-IN-CH.
A little poem
Thistle-seed splitter,
small bill cracks the winter shut-
a gold note escapes.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the finch get the job? It had the perfect bill for it.
What it teaches
Small tools, well-shaped to their work, outlast grand ones built for nothing in particular.
Quick facts
What does FINCH mean?
A small seed-eating songbird with a short, stout, conical bill.
Is FINCH a valid word?
Yes — FINCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FINCH?
FINCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FINCH come from?
From Old English 'finc', from a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'Fink', Dutch 'vink'), possibly echoing the bird's chirping call.
What can FINCH teach us?
Small tools, well-shaped to their work, outlast grand ones built for nothing in particular.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.