单词 | grass sparrow |
释义 | > as lemmasgrass sparrow grass sparrow n. chiefly North American any of various American sparrows of the family Passerellidae; esp. the vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus.Cf. grass finch n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Pooecetes (grass-finch) grass finch1785 grass sparrow1796 vesper-sparrow1869 vesper-bird1884 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxv. 218 Shooting was now..my favourite diversion; and on the 4th I brought home a kind of plover, a couple of red-breasts, and near a dozen grass-sparrows. 1845 Amer. Rev. Oct. 366/1 The little grass-sparrow flitted with a sharp chirp before me. 1934 P. A. Taverner Birds of Canada (Canada Dept. Mines Bull. No. 72) 396 Another of the inconspicuous little grass sparrows, that none but the keenest observer will see or recognize. 2014 J. Sandrock & J. C. Prior Sci. Nomencl. Birds Upper Midwest 118 Pooecetes..gramineus... Common name: Vesper Sparrow... Other names: bay-winged bunting, grass sparrow, pasture-bird. < as lemmas |
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