carpodacus purpureus

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   North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump

   Synonymspurple finch

   Broaderfinch

   Part ofCarpodacus

Questions about carpodacus purpureus

What does carpodacus purpureus mean?

carpodacus purpureus means "North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump".

What is another word for carpodacus purpureus?

Close synonyms include purple finch. 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 carpodacus purpureus a common word?

carpodacus purpureus 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.