Finch vs. Cardinal — What's the Difference?

The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage.

Of foremost importance; paramount

Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, including the goldfinches, siskins, and canaries, having a short stout bill used for cracking seeds.

Dark to deep or vivid red.

Any of various birds of the families Cardinalidae and Emberizidae, including the sparrows, cardinals, and grosbeaks, having a similar bill.

Abbr. Card. Roman Catholic Church A high church official, ranking just below the pope, who has been appointed by a pope to membership in the College of Cardinals.

Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis. syn. Fringilla carduelis).

A dark to deep or vivid red.

Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.

A North American bird (Cardinalis cardinalis) having a crested head, a short thick bill, and bright red plumage in the male.

Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

A short hooded cloak, originally of scarlet cloth, worn by women in the 1700s.

To hunt for finches, to go finching.

A cardinal number.

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ.

Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.

Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

(nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.

Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal's cassock).

(Roman Catholic) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)

Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.

Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.

(color) A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. cardinal red}}

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(grammar) dot=, a word used to represent a cardinal number.

(Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.

(Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.

A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.

(obsolete) Mulled red wine.

Of fundamental importance; preëminent; superior; chief; principal.

One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.

A woman's short cloak with a hood.

Mulled red wine.

The cardinal bird, also called the northern cardinal.

(Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

The number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order

A variable color averaging a vivid red

Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male

Serving as an essential component;

Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order;