Definitions for tree-sparrow

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Tree-Sparrow is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 709 anagrams from letters in tree-sparrow (-aeeoprrrstw).

Definitions for tree-sparrow

noun

  1. a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
  2. a North American finch, Spizella arborea, common in winter in the northern U.S.

Origin of tree-sparrow

First recorded in 1760-70

Examples for tree-sparrow

Next came a tree sparrow, with his white wing-bar and brown-red patch on the crown of his head.

Francis H. Allen tells me that this warbler “has a chip note suggesting that of the tree sparrow but sharper.”

Items recorded in winter but not in spring are house mouse, tree sparrow, and grasshopper.

The tree sparrow, one of our most interesting sparrows, is another bird who does not fear the winter winds and storms.

The tree sparrow is another very local and uncommon species, and especially during the breeding season.

The tree sparrow, song sparrow, chipping sparrow, field sparrow and snowbird or junco are all great weed-seed destroyers.

This pale colored bird bears a remote resemblance to the tree sparrow.

He was busily scratching on the ground; he is called a tree sparrow because never by any chance is he found in a tree.

I have not myself seen the tree sparrow in any of the other Islands.

The tree sparrow, which comes to us from Hudson Bay and Labrador, lacks the stripes, but has the centre spot.

Word Value for tree-sparrow
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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