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# chaffinch

«chaffinch» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small songbird with a bright, colourful breast, common…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (chaffinches)

### meaning for a pupil

A chaffinch is a small songbird with a bright, colourful breast, common in Britain and Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaffinch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in rhymes and fairy tales, a bird called to fly and help; a name for a bird that flits about

### examples

- Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, haste away! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaffinch/#x1)
- Catch the Chaffinch-on-the-Wing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaffinch/#x2)
- A chaffinch sang in the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaffinch/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chaffinch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chaffinch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.