grass finch

Questions about grass finch

What does grass finch mean?

grass finch means "usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for grass finch?

Close synonyms include grassfinch, vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus. 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 grass finch a common word?

grass finch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.