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Siskin   Listen
noun
Siskin  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); called also aberdevine.
(b)
The American pinefinch (Spinus pinus); called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch. Note: The name is applied also to several other related species found in Asia and South America.
Siskin green, a delicate shade of yellowish green, as in the mineral torbernite.





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"Siskin" Quotes from Famous Books



... moose, musk ox, sambar[obs3]. bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet[obs3], rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine[obs3], cushat[obs3], cygnet, ringdove[obs3], siskin, swan, wood pigeon. [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint[Western US], pest. Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory[obs3], piscatorial; molluscous[obs3], vermicular; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Siskin" :   red siskin, Carduelis spinus


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