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Definition of House sparrow
1. Noun. Small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe.
Generic synonyms: Sparrow, True Sparrow
Group relationships: Genus Passer, Passer
Lexicographical Neighbors of House Sparrow
Literary usage of House sparrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"THE house sparrow (Passer domesticus). " Touch not the little Sparrow, who doth
build His home so near us. He doth follow us From spot to spot amidst the ..."
2. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"... swallows are torpid in winter, as even the most incredulous must allow to have
some degree of probability. OF THE SPARROW KIND. ¡ The " house-sparrow. ..."
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