carduelis spinus

1. 1.

   small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak

   Synonymssiskin

   Broaderfinch

Questions about carduelis spinus

What does carduelis spinus mean?

carduelis spinus means "small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak".

What is another word for carduelis spinus?

Close synonyms include siskin. 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 spinus a common word?

carduelis spinus 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.