linnet

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A female given name derived from the linnet bird. Occasionally recorded since the 19th century

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.

A small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae that derives its scientific name from its fondness for hemp, and its English name from its liking for seeds of flax, from which linen is made
{n} a genus of small singing birds
small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead
See Redpoll, and Twite
a small brown singing bird
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp
The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy
Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll
The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson
cannabina, which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson
small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
the common European species L
{i} European finch
linnet

    Silbentrennung

    lin·net

    Türkische aussprache

    lînît

    Aussprache

    /ˈlənət/ /ˈlɪnɪt/

    Etymologie

    () From Old French linette, from lin (“flax”).
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