A plant ready for repotting should slide out with the soil in one piece. If much of the soil falls free of the roots, the plant may not need repotting. If it does, there will likely be a solid soil-and-root mass in the shape of the just-removed pot. Roots should be white or light-colored.
finch in American English (fÉªntÊ ; finch) noun. any of various small, short-beaked, seed-eating passerine birds (esp. family Fringillidae), including redpolls, canaries, crossbills, goldfinches, and chaffinches. ME < OE finc, akin to Ger fink < IE echoic base *(s)pingo-, chirping bird > Welsh pink, Gr spingos, finch.
Analysis of Major Characters. Jean Louise âScoutâ Finch-The narrator and protagonist of the story. Scout lives with her father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia, in Maycomb. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy.