If a robin survives to midwinter, it lives an average of 1.7 years after that. The oldest robins in your yard might be about six years old, although one banded bird lived almost 14 years. [sounds of winter wind ] So in a dozen years you've probably had at least a half-dozen robins of each sex involved in nesting.
Erlenmeyer flask. 1. a flask having a wide base, narrow neck, and conical form, convenient in laboratory experimentation for swirling liquids by hand. In emptying itself the aspirator bottle will aspirate 10 litres of air slowly through the water in the Erlenmeyer flask. Erlenmeyer flask.
A lorgnette (/lÉËËnjÉt/) is a pair of spectacles with a handle, used to hold them in place, rather than fitting over the ears or nose. The word lorgnette is derived from the French lorgner, to take a sidelong look at, and Middle French, from lorgne, squinting. They were invented by Englishman George Adams. The lorgnette was usually used as a piece of jewelry, rather than to enhance vision. Fashionable ladies usually preferred them to spectacles.