kinglet

IPA: kˈɪŋɫɛt

(chiefly derogatory) A petty king; a king ruling over a small or unimportant territory.
A young or little king.
A prince.
Any of several birds of the family Regulidae.

Examples of "kinglet" in Sentences

Regulus satrapa – golden-crowned kinglet, male, captured at a winter bird-banding site near Ft.
Certainly he did not give voice to the contempt that he felt for this petty kinglet and mageling.
Suspecting a ruby-crowned kinglet, I confirmed its identity on the app, then hit the birdsong play button.
Regulus satrapa by Dave Rintoul — golden-crowned kinglet, male, captured at a winter bird-banding site near Ft.
"Our kinglet is a hard master," said he, with a sigh, "and I really wish some one would get up a revolution and dethrone him.
Martyr says: "They call a kinglet (_regulus_) Cacicus, as we have said elsewhere, in other places Quebi, in some places also Tiba.
We saw an energetic, olive-colored bird in the sugar bush, a ruby-crowned kinglet, which Eric called the smallest bird with the biggest song.
Common birds include the mountain bluebird, chestnut-backed chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, ruby-crowned kinglet, pygmy nuthatch, gray jay, Steller's jay, and Clark's nutcracker.
For the kinglet was a small boy with a long, freckled face, blue eyes, a pug nose, and black hair banged across his forehead, and hanging in lank, straight locks far down over his shoulders.
Among the birds enumerated by Kuhn and others as representing the storm-cloud are likewise the wren or "kinglet" (French roitelet); the owl, sacred to Athene; the cuckoo, stork, and sparrow; and the red-breasted robin, whose name Robert was originally an epithet of the lightning-god Thor.