1. A european bird (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) having a short thick bill and in the male a red breast, blue-gray back, and black head, wings, and tail.
2. any of several similar finches.

1. any of various old world finches in the genus Pyrrhula. they are passerine birds with thick bills.

1. A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the Pyrrhula vulgaris or Pyrrhula rubicilla, a bird of europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

1. A very common oscine passerine bird of europe, Pyrrhula vulgaris; a kind of finch of the family Fringillidæ, with a very short, stout, turgid bill, which, like the crown, is black, and a body bluish above, and, in the male, tile-red below: a favorite cage-bird, easily taught to sing a variety of notes.
2. in england, a strong fence, or a hedge allowed to grow high enough to impede hunters, and much used as a test of skill in steeplechasing.
3. this name is applied locally to many very different birds, as the pine-grosbeak, Pinicola enueleator; the house-finch, Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis; the black-breasted plover, Charadrius squatarola; the goldeneye Glaucionetta clangula americana; etc.

1. common european finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast
2. united states architect who designed the capitol building in washington which served as a model for state capitols throughout the united states (1763-1844)