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Meanings of loxia in English
Synonyms
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.
Usage of loxia in English
1
A cross-bill (loxia curvirostra) was killed last year in this neighbourhood.
2
There were parrots, and paroquets, and orioles, and blue-jays, and beautiful loxias, both of the scarlet and azure-coloured species.
3
From the thinner thorns the bell-shaped nests of the Loxia depend, waving in the breeze, and the wood resounds with the cries of bright-winged choristers.
Translations for loxia
Portuguese
Spanish
Catalan
Loxia through the time