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