greenfinch

Compound of green +‎ finch.

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːn.fɪnt͡ʃ/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹin.fɪnt͡ʃ/

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greenfinch (plural greenfinches)

1. Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Europe and Asia.
   • 2016 July 14, Peter Davidson, Birds of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 135:

     The Vietnamese Greenfinch is the only greenfinch found in the Da Lat area, and as such is unmistakeable.

   1. European greenfinch, a common Old World finch (Chloris chloris, syn. Carduelis chloris), mainly green with yellow in the wings and tail.

   Synonym: green bird

2. (Northern Ireland, historical, informal) A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
   1. (UK military slang, by extension, informal) A female member of the Royal Irish Regiment.

• finch, passerine, songbird, bird

• greenfinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chloris (Cuvier) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chloris (Fringillidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons