Crossword clues for linnet
linnet
- European finch
- Common finch
- Small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
- Small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead
- Old World finch
- Old World songbird
- Small finch
- Songbird
- One of the finches
- Songbird left in trap
- Songbird left where it could be trapped?
- Small finch, once popular as a caged songbird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linnet \Lin"net\ (l[i^]n"n[e^]t), n. [F. linot, linotte, from L. linum flax; or perh. shortened from AS. l[=i]netwige, fr. AS. l[=i]n flax; -- so called because it feeds on the seeds of flax and hemp. See Linen.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species ( Linota cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet ( Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
Green linnet (Zo["o]l.), the European green finch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small finch-like songbird, 1530s, from Middle French linette "grain of flax," diminutive of lin "flax," from Latin linum "linen" (see linen). Flaxseed forms much of the bird's diet. Old English name for the bird was linetwige, with second element perhaps meaning "pluck." This yielded Middle English and dialectal lintwhite.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small passerine bird, (taxlink Carduelis cannabina species noshow=1) in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. 2 (context US English) A house finch.
WordNet
n. small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico [syn: house finch, Carpodacus mexicanus]
small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead [syn: lintwhite, Carduelis cannabina]
Wikipedia
There are three species of linnet:
- Common linnet, Carduelis cannabina
- Yemen linnet, Carduelis yemenensis
- Warsangli linnet, Carduelis johannis
Usage examples of "linnet".
The singing linnets come in parties, the happy greenfinches, the streaked yellow-hammers, as if any one had delicately painted them in separate streaks, and not with a wash of colour, the brown buntings, chaffinches--out they come from the hazel copses, where the nuts are dropping, and the hedge berries turning red, and every one finds something to his liking.
Larks and linnets wheeled and turned with a rush and fluttering of wings and their sweet trillings pierced the silence, and there was the fragrant scent of harebells and wildflowers and heather on the lucent air.
If I should say that ganders grow also to be gelded, I suppose that some will laugh me to scorn, neither have I tasted at any time of suc tivits, king-fishers, buntings, turtles (white or grey), linnets, bullfinches, goldfinches, washtails, cherrycrackers, yellowhammers, fieldfares, etc.
And so, two days after arriving, Rynna and Tipperton, Beau and Linnet, they took their vows on Winterday eve, Year's Long Night, First Yule, Coron Eiron presiding.
I observed among them the brown thrush, robin, turtledove, linnet, goldfinch, the large and small blackbird, wren, and several other birds of less note.
Linnet stumbled into view, reeling as the lid to a butter churn smacked him upside the head.
And he leaped astride his pony and spurred forward, galloping after Rynna flying across the wold, Linnet and Farly and all the Dylvana racing after.
Hence, only Tip, Rynna, Beau, Linnet, Farly, and Nix were left in the camp, and they had waited until the ponies were ready to travel before they set out, for the little steeds had been utterly spent, having trod one hundred forty miles in but two days.
Rynna, Beau, Linnet, Nix, and Farly followed, each of them leading ponies also burdened with dead maggot-folk.
Sing of Farly and Nix and Linnet and Alver and Dinly, heroes no less than any here.
Dwarves fell, men, too, along with Elves cut down, and Tipperton and Beau and Rynna and Linnet wept to see such slaughter, as did Farly and Nix and Alver and Dinly, the Warrows ineffective now that they couldn't loose arrow or bullet at all.
And even as Linnet, sobbing, threw herself from her pony and took her brother Nix in her arms, Farly loosed an arrow to fly through the air and slay the crossbow bearer.
And now Farly lay dead, and though Tipperton and Linnet and Beau yet had missiles, still the black-robed men were many, and the arrows few.
They followed the remnants of a road down which once had spun the wheels of lacquered carriages carrying verbena-scented ladies who twittered like linnets in the shade of parasols, and leathery cotton rich gentlemen gruffing at each other through a violet haze of Havana smoke, and their children, prim little girls with mint crushed in their handkerchiefs, and boys with mean blackberry eyes, little boys who sent their sisters screaming with tales of roaring tigers.
Linnet in the corner, Tim and Pennington each side of her, both talking to her, vying for her attention.