The siskin.

A small Eurasian finch, Spinus spinus, having greyish green plumage with black and yellow markings, sometimes kept as a caged songbird.

A species of finch mentioned by Aristotle as feeding on thistles; generally taken to be the Siskin.

English regional (Norfolk). A small bird that feeds on birch and alder trees, perhaps the siskin (Carduelis spinus). Obsolete.

The siskin, Carduelis spinus, esp. as a cage bird.

name given locally to various birds appearing about the time of barley-sowing, as the wryneck, siskin, greenfinch, and sometimes the nightingale.