siskin

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  1. noun Any of several small finches, such as Carduelis spinus, a greenish-yellow finch of Eurasia related to the goldfinch, or the pine siskin of North America.

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  • I believe that bird yonder is a hybrid of canary and siskin, that one there a citril hybrid Benjamin Boot smiled. —  104 - Birds Of Death
  • The siskin, the waxwing, and the Siberian chiffchaff: Britain's birders are in paradise as the cold snap forces rare breeds into our gardens. —  Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • The pine siskin is smaller than a house finch, has a smaller bill than a goldfinch, and has distinguishing yellow wing-bars and a flash of yellow under their wings. —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • When cooking, like bird-watching, you never know what may appear pop-quiz: find the siskin! —  Out Of The Garden
  • A number of reported bird deaths were in this highly stressed pine siskin population.
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  1. Obsolete Dutch sīsken, from alteration of Middle Dutch, diminutive of sīs, from Middle Low German csītze, probably from Czech číž, of imitative origin.

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  1. =D. siisje =Middle Low German sisek, cisek, sisex, ziseke, Low German ziseke, sieske =Middle High German zīsec, zīse, German zeisig, zeischen, zeisel, etc., =Danish sisgen =Swedish siska =Norwegian sisik, sisk, a siskin; derived, all prob. through G., and with the termination variously conformed to a diminutive suffix (D. -je, G. -chen), from Slovenian chizhek =Bohemian chízh =Polish czyzh =Upper Sorbian chizhik =Little Russian chyzh =Russian chizhŭ; cf. Hung, czíz, Old Prussian czilix, a siskin. In view of this origin, the word is not connected with Swedish dial. sisa, expressing the sound of the wood-grouse, or with English siss, Dutch sissen, hiss.
 

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