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单词 common redpoll
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common redpoll
1. Any of several Eurasian and North American finches of the genus Carduelis that have brownish streaky plumage and a crimson forehead; esp. (more fully common redpoll) C. flammea (or spec. the subspecies C. f. cabaret: see sense 2b). Frequently with distinguishing word.Several closely related forms, distinguished by size and degree of pigmentation of plumage, have been treated in the past as distinct species but are now regarded as subspecies of C. flammea. The arctic or hoary redpoll, C. hornemanni, is also sometimes regarded as a subspecies of C. flammea. Cf. mealy redpoll n. at mealy adj. Compounds 3.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Acanthis > acanthis flammea (lesser redpoll)
red-headed linnet1674
redpoll1728
stone-redpole1768
lesser redpoll1776
rose linnet1796
redpoll linnet?a1808
redpoll finch1814
mealy redpoll1837
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Acanthis > acanthus cannabina (linnet) > male
red-headed linnet1674
redpoll1728
greater redpoll1768
rose linnet1796
rose lintie1825
1728 Bird Fancier's Recreation 72 The Red Pole... This is a pretty little Bird.
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 312 There is another bird,..called a redpoll, which is taken in numbers during the Michaelmas and March flights by the London bird-catchers.
1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 88 On two occasions I have seen the Mealy Redpoll associated with the American Siskin.
1882 H. Lansdell Through Siberia I. 202 Flocks of redpoles and shore-larks, bramblings and wagtails.
1916 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 759/2 Redpoles twitter as they pass overhead.
1955 P. A. D. Hollom Pop. Handbk. Brit. Birds (ed. 2) 396 The white unstreaked rump and white underparts distinguish it [sc. Arctic Redpoll] from Redpoll.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands viii. 98 In winter all over Britain the minute and multitudinous seeds of the birch are eagerly sought by small finches, especially redpolls and siskins.
1997 S. B. Morrow Names of Things 16 I remember her..saying in her deep Scots voice something about..the redpolls down from the Arctic that year.
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