Crossword-Solution: LINNET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Linnet | n. | Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. 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. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “LINNET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| twite | 1 answer |
| House finch | 1 answer |
| Flaxseed-eating finch | 1 answer |
| Finch family member | 1 answer |
| Common finch, so called because it feeds on seeds of flax. | 1 answer |
| British songbird. | 1 answer |
| One of the finches | 1 answer |
| Small brown finch | 1 answer |
| Type of small finch | 1 answer |
| greenfinch | 1 answer |
| lintwhite | 1 answer |
| small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | 1 answer |
| Old World songbird | 2 answers |
| Common finch | 2 answers |
| Finch variety | 3 answers |
| Variety of finch | 3 answers |
| Small song bird. | 3 answers |
| OLD World finch | 3 answers |
| EUROPEAN finch | 5 answers |
| Small finch | 6 answers |
| A COMMON LARGE FINCH OF EURASIA | 10 answers |
| A COMMON SEMITERRESTRIAL EUROPEAN FROG | 10 answers |
| EUROPEAN songbird | 11 answers |
| BROWNISH SONGBIRD | 12 answers |
| finch | 12 answers |
| song bird | 12 answers |
| Small songbird | 20 answers |
| bird song | 21 answers |
| European airline | 24 answers |
| Marsh bird | 28 answers |
| songbird | 42 answers |
| small bird | 51 answers |
| European bird | 64 answers |
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Sentences with LINNET (5)
The nightingale is rather rare and yet they say you’ll hear him there At Kew, at Kew in lilac time (and oh, so near to London!) The linnet and the throstle, too, and after dark the long halloo And golden-eyed _tu-whit, tu whoo_ of owls that ogle London.
THE WATER-DROP BY FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAROVE' (ADAPTED FROM THE TRANSLATION BY SARAH AUSTIN) There was once a child who lived in a little hut, and in the hut there was nothing but a little bed and a looking-glass; but as soon as the first sunbeam glided softly through the casement and kissed his sweet eyelids, and the finch and the linnet waked him merrily with their morning songs, he arose and went out into the green meadow.
Never one of these nighthawks will you see after linnet time, though the hurtle of their wings makes a pleasant sound across the dusk in their season.
Pity the bird that has wandered! Pity the sailor ashore! Hurry him home to the ocean, Let him come here no more! High on the sea-cliff ledges The white gulls are trooping and crying, Here among the rooks and roses, Why is the sea-gull flying? VII—TO A GARDENER FRIEND, in my mountain-side demesne My plain-beholding, rosy, green And linnet-haunted garden-ground, Let still the esculents abound.
Among them stood a glass bowl, containing three wonderful little gold fish, and from the top casing hung a brass cage, from which a green linnet sang an exultant song.
Quotes with LINNET (3)
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.''I'm sure that would suit dear Linnet admirably.'Poirot made a gesture. 'I am not thinking of her at this moment! I am thinking of you. You have suffered - yes - but what you are doing now will only prolong the suffering.
Linnet’s thudding heart raced blood through her veins, sending a flush of embarrassing heat to her face. She had been avoiding him, but she could never tell him why. It took all her discipline not to quail under Sir Anthony’s penetrating gaze. Blast the man. She’d lost count of the times he’d made her feel like a blushing maiden. Strictly speaking, she was still a maiden, but she’d given up blushing years ago — along with simpering, flirting, and so many other talents deemed …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1944–2018).