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sparrow

/ˈspæɹoʊ/ noun B2
  1. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
  2. A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
  3. A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.
  4. Generically, any small, nondescript bird.

Plural sparrows

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The little sparrows overhead,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 15 · C1
Clearer grow; and sparrow's wings
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 20 · C1
## The Sparrow and the Hare
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 87 · B2
A Sparrow upbraided her and said, “Where now is thy remarkable swiftness of foot?
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 87 · B2

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