carduelis carduelis

1. 1.

   small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings

   Synonymsgoldfinch

   Broaderfinch

   Part ofCarduelis

Questions about carduelis carduelis

What does carduelis carduelis mean?

carduelis carduelis means "small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings".

What is another word for carduelis carduelis?

Close synonyms include goldfinch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carduelis carduelis a common word?

carduelis carduelis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.