Linnet is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LINNET in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a common finch, feeding on flaxseed, also LINTIE, LINTWHITE
• a mainly brown and grey finch with a reddish breast and forehead.
• songbird of the finch family
• 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.
• small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico
• small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a European songbird

Words related to LINNET

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Words that contain LINNET

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How to use LINNET in a sentence

• But the Linnet does not persevere like the Song-Sparrow, after he has once commenced.
• The male American Linnet is crimson on the head, neck, and throat, dusky on the upper part of its body, and beneath somewhat straw-colored.
• I know the spot the bees love best, And where the linnet has built her nest.
• In the course of the forenoon, a small bird of the linnet tribe perched on the rigging in a state of exhaustion, and allowed itself to be caught.
• This linnet, as near as I can remember, seemed to be somewhat larger than an English swan.
• He went by nature for this preposterous idea of nobility as a linnet hatched in a cage will try to fly.
• And if returned from conquered foes, How blithely will the evening close, How sweet the linnet sing repose, To my young bride and me, Mary! SIR WALTER SCOTT.
• Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
• The Greeks named the herb originally from the linnet, which first made use of the leaf for clearing its vision, and which passed on the knowledge to mankind.
• THE LINNET Upon this leafy bush With thorns and roses in it, Flutters a thing of light, A twittering linnet.
• Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing.
• Here is a storm to warn the wandering linnet to his shade.
• Until two hours ago she was as contented and as happy as a linnet.
• Herbert, returned from a visit to New York, and he brought with him, for Fanny Lee, a beautiful bird, called a linnet.
• When she saw the cage hanging amid the vines, and heard the clear, sweet notes of the linnet, her heart was stirred with envy.
• The piping plover, the light-winged linnet, And the swallow sail in the sunset skies.

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