Definitions for "Linnet"
Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (Linota cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
a common and well-knownsongbird, Linota cannbina, of the family Fringillidae. Its plummage is brown or warm grey; but in the summer the breast and crown of the cock become crimson or rose-colour.
small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico