verdin
/vˈɝdɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "2000, Kenn Kaufman, Verdin, Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus (editors), A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, University of California Press, Revised and Updated Edition, page 422, Tiny and rather plain, the Verdin seems quite unremarkable at first sight."
- "Verdins are yellow-faced desert-dwellers that are commonly encountered in southern Arizona.[…]Although primarily insectivorous, Verdins will also readily consume nectar, which they obtain by piercing tubular flowers or by visiting hummingbird feeders."
- "Desert-dwelling verdins, forage solitarily, in pairs, or in small groups by actively hopping from twig to twig while sounding their surprisingly loud tseet calls almost continuously."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: verdín