linnet
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- noun
- /ˈlɪnɪt/
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linnet
- An evening full of the linnet's wings!
- a green linnet
- linnet bird
Examples
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A small bird, a linnet, Mel thought, flew past them, wings whirring.
Fiction book (2001) -
Green finch and linnet bird
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"The linnet sang in my heart today
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Green finch and linnet bird
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"What else?" The linnet and thrush say, "I love, and I love!" ## What else?
Fiction book (1995) -
The jays are there again, along with a lot of bullfinches, linnets, and greenfinches.
Fiction book (1994) -
It is no surprise that so many of them are dedicated to birds (the skylark, the green linnet, the redbreast, etc.).
Academic text (2017) -
She wants to turn Bedlam upside down and make all the loonies happy as linnets.
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Almost 50 years later, John Barns Linnet patented the flip book, which used a set of sequential pictures to create the illusion of motion that people could use their hands to flip through the different images.
Academic text (2010) -
As I walked through the park, I could hear a linnet singing sweetly in the trees.
Synonyms
A small finch with a red breast and forehead found in Europe
A small songbird like a finch with a red breast and forehead
Surface Forms
Etymology
Linnet comes from an old word lin meaning 'flax', as in linen. People named the small songbird after flax because it often eats flax seeds, so the name helps you remember a little seed-eating bird.