Robin vs Roin - What's the difference?
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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 .
(obsolete) To growl; to roar.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
As nouns the difference between robin and roin
is that robin is (soccer) someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the , as a fan, player, coach, etc while roin is .As a proper noun robin
is .robin
English
(wikipedia robin)Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
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) ----roin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) runger, ultimately of imitative origin.Verb
(en verb)- Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne , when salvage choler gan redound.