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Definition: Siskin |
SiskinNoun1. Small sharp-billed yellow-and-black Eurasian finch. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "siskin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A number of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae are named as siskins. These are mainly some of the small species in the genus Carduelis with largely yellow plumage, but a few similar-looking birds in the genus Serinus are also named as siskins.
Siskins Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Fringillidae
Genera Carduelis
Serinus
See also serin
- Eurasian Siskin, Carduelis spinus
- Pine Siskin, Carduelis pinus
- Black-capped Siskin, Carduelis atriceps
- Black-headed Siskin, Carduelis notata
- Andean Siskin, Carduelis spinescens
- Yellow-faced Siskin, Carduelis yarrellii
- Thick-billed Siskin, Carduelis crassirostris
- Hooded Siskin, Carduelis magellanica
- Yellow-bellied Siskin, Carduelis xanthogastra
- Saffron Siskin, Carduelis siemiradzkii
- Olivaceous Siskin, Carduelis olivacea
- Red Siskin, Carduelis cucullata
- Antillean Siskin, Carduelis dominicensis
- Black-chinned Siskin, Carduelis barbata
- Black Siskin, Carduelis atrata
- Yellow-rumped Siskin, Carduelis uropygialis
- Abyssinian Siskin, Serinus nigriceps
- Cape Siskin, Serinus totta
- Drakensberg Siskin, Serinus symonsi
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Siskin."
Synonym: SiskinSynonym: Carduelis spinus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Bird; poultry, fowl, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine, cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Siskin |
| English words defined with "siskin": Aber-de-vine ♦ Pinefinch ♦ Tarin, Terin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Siskin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (siskin). |
| "Siskin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Siskin" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "siskin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Siskin | Last name | 100 | 78,101 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "siskin": American siskin ♦ pine siskin ♦ red siskin ♦ siskin green. 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 |
red siskin | 17 |
siskin | 11 |
pine siskin | 10 |
siskin steel | 7 |
hooded red siskin | 5 |
hospital siskin | 5 |
siskin skew | 3 |
bird siskin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "siskin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | çerr. (various references) | |
Arabic | السسكن عصفور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | птичка подобна на щиглеца. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鶸 . (various references) | |
Czech | pìnkava (chaffinch, Finch). (various references) | |
Danish | groensisken. (various references) | |
Dutch | sijsje. (various references) | |
French | siskin, tarin des aulnes. (various references) | |
German | Zeisig (aberdevine). (various references) | |
Greek | χρυσοκαρδερίνα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csíz. (various references) | |
Italian | lucherino. (various references) | |
Manx | corkan airhey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iskinsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lugre (lugger). (various references) | |
Romanian | scatiu. (various references) | |
Russian | чиж. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | češljugar (goldfinch). (various references) | |
Spanish | lúgano, chamariz. (various references) | |
Swedish | grönsiska (aberdevine). (various references) | |
Turkish | karabaşlı iskete. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чиж. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Carduelis spinus, RM:zaisch d'ogna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "siskin": siskins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "siskin" (pronounced si"ski'n) |
| 4 | -s k i' n | buckskin, deerskin, Gaskin, pigskin, redskin, sheepskin. |
| 3 | -k i' n | Bodkin, bumpkin, Calkin, Malkin, mannequin, napkin, punkin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-k-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sinks, skins. | |
-2 letters: inks, kins, kiss, nisi, sink, sins, skin, skis. | |
-3 letters: ink, ins, kin, sin, sis, ski. | |
-4 letters: in, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-k-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: kinesis, kissing, siskins, skiings. | |
+2 letters: griskins, ickiness, inkiness, kidskins, kinesics, kinships, kipskins, miniskis, oilskins, pigskins. | |
+3 letters: bekissing, kaiserins, kingships, kingsides, kinkiness, milkiness, misthinks, riskiness, silkiness, skillings, skimmings, skinniest, skiorings, skirtings, slinkiest, spikiness, spilikins, stickpins, stinkiest, wineskins. | |
+4 letters: diakineses, diakinesis, dyskinesia, fossicking, friskiness, ickinesses, inkinesses, kindliness, kingfishes, kingliness, kolinskies, miniskirts, onionskins, outkissing, quirkiness, sickliness, silkalines, silkolines, skijorings, skimpiness, skinflints, skinniness, skydivings, slinkiness, spillikins, stickiness, trickiness. | |
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