robin : Idioms & Phrases

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american robin

  • noun large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen
    robin; Turdus migratorius.
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armored sea robin

  • noun sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope
    Peristedion miniatum; armored searobin.
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Beach robin

  • (Zoöl.), the robin snipe, or knot. See Knot.
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Blue-throated robin

  • . (Zoöl.) See Bluethroat.
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Canada robin

  • (Zoöl.), the cedar bird.
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clay-colored robin

  • noun robin of Mexico and Central America
    Turdus greyi.
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early wake-robin

  • noun a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States
    dwarf-white trillium; snow trillium.
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flying robin

  • noun tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
    flying gurnard; butterflyfish.
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Golden robin

  • (Zoöl.), the Baltimore oriole.
  • . (Zoöl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab.
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Ground robin

  • (Zoöl.), the chewink.
  • . (Zoöl.) See Chewink.
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Indian robin

  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Asiatic saxoline birds of the genera Thamnobia and Pratincola. They are mostly black, usually with some white on the wings.
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Magrie robin

  • (Zoöl.), an Asiatic singing bird (Corsycus saularis), having the back, head, neck, and breast black glossed with blue, the wings black, and the belly white.
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northern sea robin

  • noun large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida
    Prionotus carolinus.
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old world robin

  • noun small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
    Erithacus rubecola; Old World robin; robin; redbreast.
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prairie wake-robin

  • noun trillium of central United States having dark purple sessile flowers
    Trillium recurvatum; prairie trillium.
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Ragged robin

  • noun common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
    Lychins floscuculi; cuckoo flower; Lychnis flos-cuculi.
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  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Lychnis (L. Flos-cuculi), cultivated for its handsome flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.
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Robin accentor

  • (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic singing bird (Accentor rubeculoides), somewhat resembling the European robin.
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robin goodfellow

  • noun a mischievous sprite of English folklore
    Puck.
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Rob"in Good"fel`low
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  1. A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak.
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robin hood

  • noun legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor
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Robin redbreast

  • noun small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
    Erithacus rubecola; Old World robin; robin; redbreast.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The European robin . (b) The American robin . (c) The American bluebird.
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Robin snipe

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The red-breasted snipe, or dowitcher . (b) The red-breasted sandpiper, or knot.
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Robin's plantain

  • noun common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays
    Erigeron pulchellus.
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  • . (Bot.) See under Plantain.
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Round robin

  • noun a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant
  • noun a letter signed by a number of people
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  • . Perhaps F. round round + ruban ribbon. (a) A written petition, memorial, remonstrance, protest, etc., the signatures to which are made in a circle so as not to indicate who signed first. "No round robins signed by the whole main deck of the Academy or the Porch." De Quincey. (b) (Zoöl.) The cigar fish.
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runaway robin

  • noun trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta
    field balm; ground ivy; Nepeta hederaceae; Glechoma hederaceae; alehoof; gill-over-the-ground.
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Scrub robin

  • (Zoöl.), an Australian singing bird of the genus Drymodes.
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Sea robin

  • noun American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries
    searobin.
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  • . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of American gurnards of the genus Prionotus. They are excellent food fishes. Called also wingfish. The name is also applied to a European gurnard. (b) The red-breasted merganser, or sheldrake . Local, U.S.
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Swamp robin

  • (Zoöl.), the chewink.
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wake-robin

  • noun any liliaceous plant of the genus Trillium having a whorl of three leaves at the top of the stem with a single three-petaled flower
    trillium; wood lily.
  • noun common American spring-flowering woodland herb having sheathing leaves and an upright club-shaped spadix with overarching green and purple spathe producing scarlet berries
    Arisaema atrorubens; jack-in-the-pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum; Indian turnip.
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Wake"-rob`in noun
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  1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). ✍ In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
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Water robin

  • (Zoöl.), a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.
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