Robin vs Robbin - What's the difference?
robin | robbin |
Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
# A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
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, passage=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.}}
# An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
A kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies.
(nautical)
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between robin and robbin
is that robin is various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly family: Eopsaltridae), typically with a red breast while robbin is a kind of package in which pepper and other dry commodities are sometimes exported from the East Indies.As proper nouns the difference between robin and robbin
is that robin is a given name derived from Germanic while Robbin is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.robin
English
(wikipedia robin)Noun
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Usage notes
The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.Synonyms
* (all senses) redbreast, robin redbreast * (the European robin)Derived terms
* robin redbreast * round-robinExternal links
* (Erithacus rubecula) * (Turdus migratorius) * (Erithacus rubecula) * (Turdus migratorius) ----robbin
English
Noun
(en noun)- The robbin of rice in Malabar weighed about 84 pounds.