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NEW WORLD SPARROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New World sparrow mean? 

NEW WORLD SPARROW (noun)
  The noun NEW WORLD SPARROW has 1 sense:

1. sparrow-like North American finches

  Familiarity information: NEW WORLD SPARROW used as a noun is very rare.


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NEW WORLD SPARROW (noun)


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Meaning:

Sparrow-like North American finches

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("New World sparrow" is a kind of...):

finch (any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World sparrow"):

grass finch; Pooecetes gramineus; vesper sparrow (common North American finch noted for its evening song)

white-throated sparrow; whitethroat; Zonotrichia albicollis (common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown)

white-crowned sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys (finch with black-and-white striped crown)

chipping sparrow; Spizella passerina (small North American finch common in urban areas)

field sparrow; Spizella pusilla (common North American finch of brushy pasturelands)

Spizella arborea; tree sparrow (finch common in winter in the northern U.S.)

Melospiza melodia; song sparrow (small songbird common in North America)

Melospiza georgiana; swamp sparrow (North American finch of marshy area)


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