painted finch
noun
1Emblema pictum (family Estrildidae) of central Australia.
2The painted bunting, Passerina ciris.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
- free-milling
- freemium
- free moisture
- freeness
- free of charge
- free on board (or rail)
- free paper
- free parachute
- free pardon
- free part
- free pass
- free period
- Freephone
- free pistol
- free place
- free-placer
- free play
- free port
- Freeport
- Freepost
- free press
- free public house
- free quarter
- free quartering
- free radical