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Redpoll
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Redpoll has 2 senses
- redpoll(n = noun.animal) carduelis hornemanni - small siskin-like finch with a red crown; Array is a kind of finch
- redpoll(n = noun.animal) carduelis flammea - small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump; Array is a kind of finch
is a member of carduelis, genus carduelis
is a member of carduelis, genus carduelis
CIDE DICTIONARY
Redpoll, n.
Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Ægiothus ), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (Acanthis linarius ) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet . See Illust. under Linnet. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Redpoll, n. a finch, Acanthis flammea, with a red forehead, similar to a linnet.
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