redpoll Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small siskin-like finch with a red crown
    Carduelis hornemanni.
  2. noun small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump
    Carduelis flammea.

WordNet

Red"poll` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Ægiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (A. linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet. See Illust. under Linnet. (b) The common European linnet. (c) The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).

Webster 1913