| 单词 | grey linnet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey linnet grey linnet n. now historical the linnet, Carduelis cannabina, which is predominantly greyish-brown. ΚΠ 1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 179 I should have named it [sc. the Grey Finch] the Grey Linnet, but that we have already a Bird in our Country so called, though it be of a brown Colour. 1834 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 1. 22 The mellow call-note of the grey linnet was..heard. 1900 Trans. Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 44 201 Linnet... L[ocal] N[ames]. Common Linnet, Grey Linnet, Red Linnet, Brown Linnet.., Rose Linnet. 2006 K. C. Grier Pets Amer. i. 62 Gray linnets, siskins, chaffinches, starlings, and English robins, among others, were also imported throughout the nineteenth century. < as lemmas |
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