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Definitions: Redpoll |
RedpollNoun1. Small siskin-like finch with a red crown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: RedpollSynonyms: Carduelis flammea (n), Carduelis hornemanni (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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 Common Redpoll | ||||||||||||
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| Carduelis flammea Carduelis cabaret Carduelis hornemanni |
The Redpolls are a group of small passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae which have characteristic red markings on their heads. They are very closely related, and taxonomically could be considered as any thing from one to five species. Recent studies tend to support three species.
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They are primarily seed-eaters, and often feed acrobatically like a tit. They have a dry reeling song and a metallic call. They lay 4-7 eggs in a nest in a tree or, in the case of Arctic Redpoll, a large bush. They can form large flocks outside the breeding season, sometimes mixed with other finches.
Arctic Redpoll , Carduelis hornemanni, breeds in tundra birch forest. It has two races, C. h. hornemanni, (Greenland Arctic Redpoll) of Greenland and neighbouring parts of Canada, and C. h. exilipes, which breeds in the tundra of northern North America and Eurasia. Both forms migrate further south in winter.
The Greenland race is a very large and pale bird, with the male sometimes described as a "snowball", but both forms are pale with small beaks, white rumps and often more yellow than grey-brown tones in their plumage. The females are more streaked on their breasts, sides and rumps, but are still pale.
Common Redpoll, Carduelis flammea, breeds somewhat further south than Arctic Redpoll. Nominate C. f. flammea, breeds across the northern parts of North America and Eurasia. There is also an Icelandic race, C. f. islandica, and a race which breeds in Greenland and Baffin Island, C. f. rostrata. All forms migrate further south in winter into the USA and most of Eurasia. Common Redpoll is smaller, browner and more streaked than Arctic.
Lesser Redpoll, Carduelis cabaret, is the smallest, brownest and most streaked species. It breeds in Ireland, Great Britain and neighbouring parts of Europe up to Norway, and the Alps. Many birds migrate further south in winter, but the milder climate means that this redpoll can be found all year round in much of its range, and may be joined by the other two species in winter. This species has been introduced to New Zealand.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Redpoll."
Crosswords: Redpoll |
| English words defined with "redpoll": Redpole. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Redpoll" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (redpoll). |
| "Redpoll" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Redpoll" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "redpoll": greater redpoll ♦ redpoll linnet. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
redpoll | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "redpoll"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الردبول عصفور أحمر الرأس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | брезова скатия, порода червени говеда без рога. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | graasisken. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | barmsijs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | redpoll, sizerin flammé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Leinzeisig, Lärchenzeisig, Birkenzeisig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοκκινοσκουφήσ, σημυδόσπιζα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rövidszarú angol marha, kederike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | organetto (accordion, barrel organ, street organ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lossan ruy, bytermyn cooyl-jiarg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edpollray pintarroxo (lino, robin, Twite), Carduelis flammea flammea. (various references) чечетка (aberdevine, tap dance, tap-dance, tap-dancing). (various references) zeba (finch). (various references) pinzón (brambling, chaffinch, Finch, stiletto), pardillo sizerín. (various references) gråsiska. (various references) kenevir kuşu, kızıl inek. (various references) чечітка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Acanthis flammea flammea, Carduelis flammea, Carduelis flammea flammea, RM:zaisch da laresch. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "redpoll": redpolls. (additional references) | |
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"Redpoll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eddoll, fedpols, Ripoll, Ruspoli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "redpoll" (pronounced re"dpō'l) |
| 4 | -d p ō' l | Tadpole. |
| 3 | -p ō' l | dipole, flagpole, monopole. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: polder, polled, poller, repoll, rolled. | |
-2 letters: doper, droll, loped, loper, older, pedro, poled, poler, pored, prole, roped. | |
-3 letters: dell, doer, dole, doll, dope, dore, dorp, drop, lode, lope, lord, lore, oped, orle, pled, plod, pole, poll, pore, prod, redo, repo, rode, role, roll, rope. | |
-4 letters: del, doe, dol, dor, eld, ell, led, lop, ode, old, ole, ope, ore, ped, per, pod, pol, pro, red, rep, rod, roe. | |
-5 letters: de, do, ed, el, er, lo, od, oe, op, or, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-l-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: redpolls, repolled. | |
+2 letters: patrolled, pilloried, pollarded, propelled. | |
+3 letters: deplorable, deplorably, phelloderm, polyhedral. | |
+4 letters: deploringly, haloperidol, petrodollar, phelloderms, placeholder, preallotted, protocolled. | |
+5 letters: haloperidols, overpedalled, periodically, petrodollars, placeholders, policyholder, procedurally, spheroidally. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.. .--. --- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100100 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e d p o l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0064 0070 006F 006C 006C |
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