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Definition of Old World robin
1. Noun. Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast.
Generic synonyms: Thrush
Group relationships: Erithacus, Genus Erithacus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old World Robin
Literary usage of Old World robin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1907)
"NOTE The Old World robin here referred to is quite different in appearance and
habits from the American Robin. It is only about half the size of the latter. ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... the titmice (parina), the erytha- eina (like the blue bird, and the old world
robin, pratincole, and redstart), ..."
3. French Memories of Eighteenth-century America by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1915)
"... so usual in the Old World. Robin says: "These farmers, simpler than our
peasants, have neither the rusticity nor the boorishness of the latter; ..."
4. Animal Memoirs by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"... imperious ways, as children love the buttercup, ignorant of its acrid juices.
We saw this feature also predominant in the Old World robin ..."
5. Readings in Natural History by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"... imperious ways, as children love the buttercup, ignorant of its acrid juices.
We saw this feature also predominant in the Old World robin ..."
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