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Webster 1913 Edition
Linnet
Lin′net
(lĭn′nĕt)
, Noun.
[F.
linot
, linotte
, from L. linum
flax; or perh. shortened from AS. līnetwige
, fr. AS. līn
flax; – so called because it feeds on the seeds of flax and hemp. See Linen
.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera
Linota
, Acanthis
, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (Linota cannabina
), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet
, red linnet
, rose linnet
, brown linnet
, lintie
, lintwhite
, gorse thatcher
, linnet finch
, and greater redpoll
. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria
) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll
, and Twite
. Green linnet
(Zool.)
, the European green finch.
Webster 1828 Edition
Linnet
LIN'NET
,Noun.
A small singing bird of the genus Fingilla.
Definition 2024
Linnet
Linnet
See also: linnet
English
Proper noun
Linnet
- A female given name derived from the linnet bird. Occasionally recorded since the 19th century.
- 2004 Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage, ISBN 0701177349, page 105
- Lindy herself hated the name Lindy. She said it sounded like a girl in pink gingham. At the beginning of this school year she'd started making all the teachers address her by her full name, Linnet. ( She'd been named for an English bird that a soldier had mentioned to their mother during the war.) At first Karen had tried to call her that too, but it had felt so unnatural that she'd gradually given it up. Still, she sympathized, and once when a teacher phoned and asked for "Lin-NET Anton's mother or father" - stressing the wrong syllable,as everyone tended to do - Karen had felt a kind of bruise deepening in her chest.
- 2004 Anne Tyler, The Amateur Marriage, ISBN 0701177349, page 105
linnet
linnet
See also: Linnet
English
A linnet
Noun
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.
- (US) A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.
Derived terms
- common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina)
- Yemen linnet {Linaria yemenensis, syn. Carduelis yemenensis)
- Warsangli linnet (Linaria johannis, syn. Carduelis johannis)
Translations
Carduelis cannabina, a finch of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa
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