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Siskin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small green and yellow European finch, Carduelis spinus spinus or Carduelis spinus, now Spinus spinus.

    "I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about."

  2. 2
    small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various similar birds in subfamily Carduelinae, principally in the genus Spinus.

Etymology

From dialectal German Sisschen, Zeischen, diminutive form of Middle High German zīsec, apparently ultimately from Proto-Slavic *čižь (compare e.g. Polish czyżyk).

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