Finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed.
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Examples for "crossbill "
Examples for "crossbill "
1 The Mexican crossbill appeared to have little fear of the migrating Northern shrike.
2 The crossbill is fitted with a wonderful tool for tearing fir-cones to pieces.
3 Not a crossbill , not a jay, neither eagle nor hawk, showed against the azure fields of sky and snow.
4 A flock of crossbills went whistling overhead, coming from the same direction.
5 No, the Crossbill does not place his nest in any of these ways.
1 A cross-bill ( loxia curvirostra ) was killed last year in this neighbourhood.
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Translations for Loxia curvirostra