WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white-crowned sparrow mean? 

• WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (noun)
  The noun WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW has 1 sense:

1. finch with black-and-white striped crown

  Familiarity information: WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finch with black-and-white striped crown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

white-crowned sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Hypernyms ("white-crowned sparrow" is a kind of...):

New World sparrow (sparrow-like North American finches)

Holonyms ("white-crowned sparrow" is a member of...):

genus Zonotrichia; Zonotrichia (large New World sparrows)