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goldcrest
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. European kinglet with a black-bordered yellow crown patch [syn: golden-crested kinglet , Regulus regulus ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The goldcrest is a passerine bird in the kinglet family. Goldcrest may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goldcrest \Gold"crest`\ (g[=o]ld"kr[e^]st`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The European golden-crested kinglet ( Regulus cristatus , or Regulus regulus ); -- called also golden-crested wren , and golden wren . The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A very small passerine bird, ''Regulus regulus'', that breeds in Eurasia.
Usage examples of goldcrest.
The goldcrest, with a stomach no bigger than a bean, flies across the North Sea!
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.