siskin
/ˈsɪskɪn
/noun
A small songbird related to the goldfinch, with yellow and black in the plumage.
- Genus Carduelis (and Serinus), family Fringillidae: the North Eurasian (spruce) siskin (C. spinus), with dark-streaked greenish-yellow plumage, and several species in the New World.
- Niger thistle appeals especially to pine siskins, goldfinches, and purple and house finches.
- After a four-winter absence delightful siskins returned to our garden in 1994.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Middle Dutch siseken, a diminutive related to German Zeisig, of Slavic origin.
Rhymes
- resounding
- resoundingly
- resource
- resource aggregation
- resource area
- resource center
- resource centre
- resource consent
- resourceful
- resourcefully
- resourcefulness
- resource industry
- resourceless
- resourcelessness
- resource person
- resource profile
- resource recovery
- resource room
- resource teacher
- resource time
- resow
- resp.
- resp
- resparkle
- respawn