siskin
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈsɪskɪn/
siskin (plural siskins)
- A small green and yellow European finch, Carduelis spinus spinus or Carduelis spinus, now Spinus spinus.
- 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 2:
- I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about.
- 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 2:
- Any of various similar birds in subfamily Carduelinae, principally in the genus Spinus.
- (Spinus spinus) aberdevine, Eurasian siskin
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