trias greenfinch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Chloris triasi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in La Palma in the Canary Islands.
Example Sentences
- "La Palma had its own endemic species of greenfinch, the Trias Greenfinch, which also had short wings but a much larger head and bill than the European Greenfinch, and presumably also succumbed with the arrival of humans on its island."