Definitions for grosbeak

grosbeak gros·beak

Spelling: [grohs-beek]
IPA: /ˈgroʊsˌbik/

Grosbeak is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 372 anagrams from letters in grosbeak (abegkors).

Definitions for grosbeak

noun

  1. any of various finches having a thick, conical bill.

Origin of grosbeak

First recorded in 1670-80, grosbeak is from the French word grosbec, literally, large beak

Examples for grosbeak

That pretty fashion of a contrast in linings is not confined to the grosbeak.

Only one species of grosbeak appears to be common in the Himalayas.

If I was to see the grosbeak and make sure of him, it must be done at once.

The grosbeak sang on, a big Turnus butterfly sailed through the arbour and poised over the table.

Philip leaned back against the arbour, watching the grosbeak as it hunted food between a tomato vine and a day lily.

Then a catbird and a brown thrush sang against a grosbeak and a hermit thrush.

She talked to the grosbeak in exactly the same manner, as she laid strawberries and potato bugs on the fence for his family.

It is an easy matter, therefore, for the grosbeak to break off a single seed.

Strange we did not see them before, but the explanation is the grosbeak was singing.

Thence came the inspiration of the Loxia pensilis (the grosbeak of the Philippines).

Word Value for grosbeak
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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