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Definition of kinglet in English: kingletnoun ˈkɪŋlɪtˈkɪŋlɪt 1derogatory A minor king. 〈主贬〉小国君主 Example sentencesExamples - What we have is a collection of contemporaneous kinglets, not one strong king.
- The passage also reveals, incidentally, that an Ethiopian prince or kinglet ruled at that time over at least a province of South Arabia.
2North American A very small warbler of a group that includes the goldcrest, having an orange or yellow crown. 〈主北美〉戴菊（鸟） Genus Regulus, family Sylviidae: several species, e.g. the American golden-crowned kinglet (R. satrapa) Example sentencesExamples - Winter bird communities in pine forests of the southeastern United States are composed of residents and potentially large numbers of overwintering migrants, including sparrows, warblers, finches, kinglets, and woodpeckers.
- These travellers would also leave the area later, but now they feasted on the abundance of wild berries and seeds, fuelling up for flight, their large presence dwarfing tiny resident ruby-crowned kinglets with their just as tiny voices.
- And kinglets are one of the smallest songbirds, weighing in at around 6 or 7 grams, or the same weight as an American nickel and a dime.
- A tiny kinglet just flitted through the branches, only a few feet from me.
- Kinglets and chickadees worked the cedars nearby, and we were lucky enough to glimpse the scarlet streak atop one little kinglet's head.
Rhymesringlet, springlet, winglet Definition of kinglet in US English: kingletnounˈkiNGlitˈkɪŋlɪt 1derogatory A minor king. 〈主贬〉小国君主 Example sentencesExamples - The passage also reveals, incidentally, that an Ethiopian prince or kinglet ruled at that time over at least a province of South Arabia.
- What we have is a collection of contemporaneous kinglets, not one strong king.
2North American A very small greenish bird with a bright orange or yellow crown. Genus Regulus, family Sylviidae: several species, e.g. the American golden-crowned kinglet (R. satrapa) Example sentencesExamples - These travellers would also leave the area later, but now they feasted on the abundance of wild berries and seeds, fuelling up for flight, their large presence dwarfing tiny resident ruby-crowned kinglets with their just as tiny voices.
- And kinglets are one of the smallest songbirds, weighing in at around 6 or 7 grams, or the same weight as an American nickel and a dime.
- Winter bird communities in pine forests of the southeastern United States are composed of residents and potentially large numbers of overwintering migrants, including sparrows, warblers, finches, kinglets, and woodpeckers.
- Kinglets and chickadees worked the cedars nearby, and we were lucky enough to glimpse the scarlet streak atop one little kinglet's head.
- A tiny kinglet just flitted through the branches, only a few feet from me.
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