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Перевод: bullfinch

[существительное]
снегирь ; густая живая изгородь со рвом

Тезаурус:

1. Bullfinch
2. Calls a whistling "tyu-tyu-tyu" and "kuvitt", song more like Bullfinch's pipe than other owls' hoots.
3. The hollow note of the bullfinch that is almost ventriloquial in its effect, came as easily from his lips as the chuckle of a jackdaw or the chiding of a sparrow hawk at its prey.
4. Henrietta did not lose interest in her impecunious father and within two years she was with him aboard HMS Bullfinch for the trials of his new screw propeller.
5. Round the final bend he was still several lengths down but was beginning to claw back the deficit, and at "Le Bullfinch", two fences out, he was second.
6. Looking for distinguishing marks - the upturned bill of the bar-tailed god wit, the chocolate brown head and white cheek with its black spot of the tree sparrow, the double white wing bar of the chaff inch, the square patch of white above the bullfinch's tail, the grey head and bandit mask of the jackdaw, the bold eyestripe of the sedge warbler.
7. While the bullfinch plumped in the apple bud
8. A bullfinch reared by a canary will sing a canary song; and the male offspring of the aberrant male bullfinch will, in their turn, learn a canary song too.
9. Thus, a raspberry is a type of berry, a bullfinch a type of finch, a dormouse a type of mouse, a padlock a type of lock, etc.
10. The steeplechase course at Auteuil is a far cry from Newbury or Cheltenham, and the runners in the four-mile Grand Steeplechase have to negotiate a bewildering variety of obstacles: some of the fences are soft privet, to be jumped through rather than over; there are two natural brooks, including the Rivire de la Tribune - four metres of water preceded by a hedge one metre high and one metre wide; and then there is Le Bullfinch, a rail, ditch and fence on top of a stone wall.
11. One type is exemplified by the cran -, bil -, rasp -, goose - of cranberry , bilberry , raspberry and gooseberry ; the bull - of bullfinch , the missel of missel thrush , the dor - of dormouse ; also the pad - of padlock and gang of gangway - and many more.