单词 | siskin egg |
释义 | > as lemmassiskin egg C1. General attributive and appositive, as siskin bird, siskin egg, etc. ΚΠ 1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. L/1 A siskin bird. 1799 R. Pulteney Catal. Birds, Shells, & Plants Dorsetshire 12/2 The Siskin Finch. 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. ii. 467 Siskin Finch. 1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 385 A less well-known member of the siskin group is the citril finch (Chrysomitris citrinella). 1916 Condor 18 225 A few years ago I found a sparsely marked set of Siskin eggs which are in every way identical. 1982 Auk 99 590/2 One [house sparrow] is reported to have precisely imitated a siskin song. 2016 M. Spencer in Wonder of it All (Yosemite Conservancy) ii. 76 The unoccupied siskin nest looked larger and higher than when I last saw it. < as lemmas |
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