OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3590

robin

/ˈɹɒ.bɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
petirrojo
Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
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