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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GROSBEAK

Gros "beak, n. Etym: [Gross + beak: cf. F. gros-bec.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.

Note: Among the best known American species are the rose-breasted (Habia Ludoviciana ); the blue (Guiraca coerulea ); the pine (Pinicola enucleator ); and the evening grosbeak. See Hawfinch, and Cardinal grosbeak, Evening grosbeak, under Cardinal and Evening. [Written also grossbeak. ] Habia Ludoviciana ).

New American Oxford Dictionary

grosbeak

gros beak |ˈgrōsˌbēk ˈɡroʊsˌbik | ▶noun a finch or related songbird with a stout conical bill and typically brightly colored plumage. [Several genera in the family Fringillidae and subfamily Cardinalinae (family Emberizidae ); the white-fronted grosbeak or grosbeak weaver (Amblyospiza albifrons ) belongs to the family Ploceidae. ] ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French grosbec, from gros ‘big, fat ’ + bec ‘beak. ’

Oxford Dictionary

grosbeak

grosbeak |ˈgrəʊsbiːk | ▶noun a finch or related songbird with a stout conical bill and typically brightly coloured plumage. ●Several genera in the family Fringillidae and subfamily Cardinalinae (family Emberizidae ); the white-fronted grosbeak or grosbeak weaver (Amblyospiza albifrons ) belongs to the family Ploceidae. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French grosbec, from gros ‘big, fat ’ + bec ‘beak ’.