melospiza melodia

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   small songbird common in North America

   Synonymssong sparrow

   BroaderNew World sparrow

   Part ofMelospiza

Questions about melospiza melodia

What does melospiza melodia mean?

melospiza melodia means "small songbird common in North America".

What is another word for melospiza melodia?

Close synonyms include song sparrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is melospiza melodia a common word?

melospiza melodia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.