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Robinet   Listen
noun
Robinet  n.  
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The chaffinch; called also roberd.
(b)
The European robin.
2.
A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.






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... suffered. The caterpillars, when placed on a mulberry-tree, often commit the strange mistake of devouring the base of the leaf on which they are feeding, and consequently fall down; but they are capable, according to M. Robinet, of again crawling up the trunk. Even this capacity sometimes fails, for M. Martins placed some caterpillars on a tree, and those which fell were not able to remount and perished of hunger; they were even incapable of passing from leaf to ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer



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