| 释义 |
vesper sparrow in American English US a gray-brown North American sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) with white outer tail feathers so called from its practice of singing in the evening vesper sparrow in American Englishnouna common finch, Pooecetes gramineus, of fields and pastures in North America, noted for its evening song Also called: grass finch Word origin [1860–65, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: calibrate, institutionalism, jumping jack, metric system, monism |