(n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last flight wave, which is observed in the Kurskaya Kosa in the second half of October, consists, in general, of chaffinches which have already gone through the leucocytozoonosis.
(2) Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond’s edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.
(3) Four artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed mammal) papillomaviruses, the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, and avian (chaffinch) papillomavirus type 1 formed a third major branch.
(4) Androgen-concentrating cells were found in the midbrain of the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs by autoradiography using tritiated testosterone.
(5) Pink-footed geese fly overhead on their way back to Greenland, rooks caw in the beech trees, a charm of chaffinches sing from the dead branches of an alder, and black-headed gulls follow a tractor ploughing in the distance.
(6) Furthermore, PePV DNA hybridized with the DNA from the European chaffinch only at low stringency, indicating that it represents a unique avian papillomavirus.
(7) Earlier this year, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust published research that claimed that greys are having a "significant effect on certain woodland birds' fledging success", particularly species such as the great tit, nuthatch, chaffinch and blackbird.
(8) Conducted parasitological investigations have shown that when migrating through the Courland Spit birds of more northern populations extensively infected with Leucocytozoon either do not merge with local populations of chaffinch, willow wren and icterine warbler or their portion is quite negligible.
(9) Eight autumn-caught female chaffinches were injected with testosterone in their first spring.
(10) • Large flocks of chaffinch with some bramblings in woodland, abundant redwing and fieldfare in hawthorn hedges, and rare waxwings appearing in unusually high numbers.
(11) From skin papillomas of the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), a virus has been purified and studied by physicochemical techniques and electron microscopy.
(12) Similar structures are not present on the lampbrush chromosomes of quail, wood pigeon or chaffinch.
(13) To identify the major group-specific epitopes, we immunized 26 guinea pigs or rabbits with purified bovine PV type 1 (BPV), canine PV, or avian PV from the common chaffinch.
(14) Chaffinches, infected with hemoproteids (Haemoproteidae) and leucocytozoids (Leucocytozoidae), are uniformly distributed in the ranges of each nonequivalent from the point of view of bioenergetics migratory wave.
Robinet
Definition:
(n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.
(n.) The European robin.
(n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was staying at the Le Robinet d’Or , just east of the Gare de l’Est and Gare du Nord train stations and a few steps west of Canal Saint-Martin.
(2) Though the city’s core is mostly for outsiders or the globalised rich, a short bike ride from Le Robinet D’Or plunged me into a very different Paris.