crown sparrow
North American (now rare )
noun
Any of various American sparrows of the genus Zonotrichia (family Emberizidae), which have a distinctively coloured crown.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Elliott Coues (1842–1889), naturalist and historian.
- blood relationship
- blood relative
- blood result
- blood-ripe
- bloodroot
- bloods
- blood sausage
- blood selling
- blood serum
- bloodshed
- bloodshedder
- bloodshedding
- bloodshot
- blood-shotting
- blood sister
- blood-sisterhood
- blood-soaked
- blood-spattered
- blood-spilling
- blood-spitting
- blood spoor
- blood sport
- bloodstain
- bloodstained
- bloodstaining