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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
linnet (plural linnets)
- 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 […]
- (US) A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.
Synonyms[edit]
- (common linnet et al): lintwhite (archaic)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Carduelis cannabina, a finch of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa
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Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
linnet
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