white-crowned sparrow
noun
A North American bunting, Zonotrichia leucophrys (family Emberizidae), which has a black and white striped crown.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John James Audubon (1785–1851), naturalist and artist.
- lee wave
- leeway
- Lee–Enfield
- Lee–Enfield rifle
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
- left
- left and right
- left-and-right shot
- left back
- left bank
- left bower
- left brain
- left-brained
- left-click
- left coast
- left face
- left field
- left-footed
- left hand
- left-hand drive
- left-handed
- left-handedly
- left-handedness
- left-hander
- left-hand rule