(n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
(n.) The yellow-hammer.
(n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pulitzer for fiction writing went to Donna Tartt for The Goldfinch, while Annie Baker won the prize for drama for her play set in a cinema, The Flick.
(2) I walked through flocks of goldfinches and starlings and watched mistle thrushes warble and wrens gobble berries.
(3) We watched the volunteers ringing and measuring goldfinches and warblers – a fascinating way to see wild birds very close up – then saw them fly off.
(4) Rights for The Goldfinch are currently under negotiation in the UK, according to the Bookseller .
(5) Dale, G., Goldfinch, M. E., Sibert, J. R., and Webb, J. K. G. (1975).
(6) At the start of the year, everyone was convinced Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch would win; things turned out to be not so predictable.
(7) I know we’re all supposed to be obsessed with The Goldfinch this summer, but I’m planning to reread The Secret History by Donna Tartt in the tub instead.
(8) The retailer is in a long-running dispute with Hachette about the price of e-books that has led to it delaying shipments of books from best selling authors including JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, David Foster Wallace, and Donna Tartt, author of this year's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Goldfinch.
(9) The experience led me to conclude that although we love to argue about books, acquire them, express strong opinions about The Goldfinch , etc, etc, more than ever we seem to be losing the knack of reading them.
(10) "The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America.
(11) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(12) Regulation of glycolysis was assessed in winter- and summer-acclimatized goldfinches (Carduelis tristis).
(13) The Goldfinch is due out in the US on 22 October this year, and according to a description from its publisher on Amazon.com will tell the story of a young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, who "miraculously" survives an explosion that kills his mother.
(14) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Secret History author may not be prolific , but she's regular.
(15) David Goldfinch, Folkestone, Kent, parent and ex-Lib Dem voter The Liberal Democrats won only 8% of the seats in parliament – and both the larger parties were committed to tuition fees.
(16) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
(17) It would be a day of spiders’ webs, drifting thistledown shredded by goldfinches , ripening berries and lethargic bumblebees clinging to the last of the knapweed flowers .
(18) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
(19) He was recently asked by the New York Times to review Donna Tartt 's new novel, The Goldfinch.
(20) Goldfinch-arm The specific ache you get from Donna Tartt's excellent but heavy hardback .
Passerine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Passeres.
(n.) One of the Passeres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(2) Adult trumpeters and both young and old passerines housed in the same exhibit were not affected.
(3) The low dose of reserpine in the passerine (common myna and bulbul) birds resulted in 40-84% reduction of both norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) from the adrenal glands irrespective of its nerve supply.
(4) Concentrations of mercury in passerine birds fed diets containing 40 ppm methylmercury were similar in tissues of birds that died from mercury poisoning and in those that were sacrificed after half the group had died.
(5) Paramyxovirus type 2(PMV-2) (Yucaipa-like), unreported in free-flying passerines in the Americas, was recovered from a finch, wren, and chicken, each from a different location.
(6) Song syntax, defined as orderly temporal arrangements of acoustic units within a bird song, is a conspicuous feature of the songs of many species of passerine birds.
(7) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) was detected in the brains of passerine birds, a recently evolved and diverse avian group.
(8) In a group of birds (passerines and non-passerines) body weight was found to be highly correlated with the length of the humerus and with the area of the foramen magnum.
(9) Antibodies to Uukuniemi viruses are found in passerine birds, small mammals, cattle and man.
(10) These values resemble diagnostic levels known for two species of passerine birds, but they exceed published levels for two free-tailed bats from Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico.
(11) The results agreed with an empirical study on body weight in a passerine bird, the Great Tit, where only the asymptote displayed heritable variation and more genetic variance was expressed under good conditions.
(12) The present study determined the volume of the hippocampal complex and the telencephalon in 3 food-storing families and in 10 non-food-storing families and subfamilies of passerines.
(13) These data suggest that monoaminergic neurotransmitters may be involved in the mediation of steroid-dependent changes in singing behavior in passerine birds.
(14) These data show that, in contrast to some other species of passerine birds, the onset of photorefractoriness does not become fixed before the testes have undergone considerable development, and that the photoperiodic conditions experienced at the end of the testicular growth phase are still effective in determining the precise time of onset of photorefractoriness.
(15) Among the passerine birds, species that store food have an enlarged hippocampal region (dorso-medial cortex), relative to brain and body size, when compared with the non-storers.
(16) The left kidney of Australian passerines was significantly longer, on average, than the right.
(17) Investigation of the effect of variation in background abundance on measures of energy expenditure for small passerines (20 g) revealed that employing estimates, instead of direct measurements, had a minor influence over an experimental period of 1 day but could potentially introduce errors as large as 54% over a 2-day period.
(18) The species consisted of two passerines (songbirds), the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), and one galliform, the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica).
(19) Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, was isolated from the liver of a passerine bird, Catharus fuscescens (veery), and from larval Ixodes dammini (tick) feeding on Pheucticus ludovicianus (rose-breasted grosbeak) and Geothlypis trichas (common yellowthroat).
(20) Free-flying passerine migrants respond to natural fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field.