noun
usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds
• Syn: ↑grass finch
• Hypernyms: ↑weaver, ↑weaverbird, ↑weaver finch
• Hyponyms: ↑zebra finch, ↑Poephila castanotis
• Member Holonyms: ↑Poephila, ↑genus Poephila
Useful english dictionary. 2012.