linnet

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English

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A linnet

Etymology

From Old French linette, from lin (“flax”), from the bird's fondness for the seeds of flax, the source of linen and Old English līnete, līnetwige (“linnet”) (> dialectal English lintwhite).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪnɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪnɪt

Noun

linnet (plural linnets)

  1. A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XXI, page 36:
      ⁠I do but sing because I must,
      And pipe but as the linnets sing:
      And unto one her note is gay,
      ⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
      ⁠And unto one her note is changed,
      Because her brood is stol’n away.
    • 1890, Robert Bridges, The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges, Book I, V:
      I heard a linnet courting
      His lady in the spring […]
  2. (US) A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

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Noun

linnet

  1. definite singular of linne
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