Synonyms:
grosbeak, grossbeak
Meaning: any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
Usage examples
The grosbeak was gone for good.
By this time the grosbeak had disappeared utterly.
Before me, in the leafy top of an oak sapling, sat a blue grosbeak.
If I was to see the grosbeak and make sure of him, it must be done at once.
For some time longer I hung about the glade, vainly hoping that the grosbeak would again favor my eyes.
Then, of course, he wished to know what I was looking at, and I told him that a blue grosbeak had just flown into that pine-tree, and that I was most distressingly anxious to see more of him.