Crossword-Solution: SISKIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Siskin | n. | A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine. |
| Siskin | n. | The American pinefinch (S. pinus); -- called also pine siskin. See Pinefinch. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SISKIN | anagram | KISSIN |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SISKIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bird related to the goldfinch | 1 answer |
| Yellowish-green finch | 1 answer |
| Small finch | 6 answers |
| finch | 12 answers |
| small bird | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SISKIN (5)
Thus the Fringilla tristis of the United States (as well as many other American species) exhibits its bright colours only when the winter is past, whilst our goldfinch, which exactly represents this bird in habits, and our siskin, which represents it still more closely in structure, undergo no such annual change.
Weir informs me that no other British finch turns thus from side to side during his courtship, not even the closely-allied male siskin, for he would not thus add to his beauty.
Colour, however, sometimes comes into play; for in order to raise hybrids from the siskin (Fringilla spinus) and the canary, it is much the best plan, according to Bechstein, to place birds of the same tint together.
Young cross-bills (Loxia) have at first straight beaks like those of other finches, and in their immature striated plumage they resemble the mature red-pole and female siskin, as well as the young of the goldfinch, greenfinch, and some other allied species.
Bechstein, on female birds choosing the best singers among the males; on rivalry in song-birds; on the singing of female birds; on birds acquiring the songs of other birds; on pairing the canary and siskin; on a sub-variety of the monk pigeon; on spurred hens.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1977–2011).