Home › Words › G › goldcrestgoldcrestgoldcrest means A very small passerine bird, Regulus regulus, that breeds in Eurasia.EtymologyFrom gold + crest.nounA very small passerine bird, Regulus regulus, that breeds in Eurasia.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.firecrest 83% match — A very small passerine bird, Regulus ignicapilla, that breeds in Eurasia. vs goldcrest →moonie 70% match — A member of the Unification Church; a follower of its founder Sun Myung Moon. vs goldcrest →goldspink 64% match — A European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis). vs goldcrest →greenfinch 62% match — Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Eurasia. vs goldcrest →treecreeper 62% match — Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Certhia which live in woodlands throughout the Northern Hemisphere. vs goldcrest →flamecrest 62% match — A bird of the species Regulus goodfellowi, native to the mountains of Taiwan. vs goldcrest →bluebreast 61% match — A small European bird, the bluethroat (Luscinia svecica). vs goldcrest →crankbird 60% match — A small European woodpecker (Dryobates minor, formerly Picus minor). vs goldcrest →