crown sparrow
North American (now rare )
noun
Any of various American sparrows of the genus Zonotrichia (family Emberizidae), which have a distinctively coloured crown.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Elliott Coues (1842–1889), naturalist and historian.
- multidentate
- multidenticulate
- multi-destination
- multidialectal
- multidialectalism
- multi-diameter
- multi-digit
- multidigitate
- multidimensional
- multidimensionality
- multidimensionally
- multidirectional
- multi-disc
- multidisciplinarian
- multidisciplinary
- multidiscipline
- multidisciplined
- multi-disk
- multidomestic
- multi-drop
- multidrug
- multidrug-resistant
- multi-electrode
- multielectron
- multi-element