passer — meaning in English
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English meaning
- sparrow noun A small, brownish-grey songbird common in towns and gardens.
Senses
passer is used for these senses in English:
- house sparrow A bird of the species Passer domesticus, native to much of Eurasia, introduced in many other temperate environments.
- sparrow A member of the family Passerellidae (or Emberizidae, under classification systems that subsume the New World sparrows under Emberizidae), comprising small New World songbirds.