spizella arborea

1. 1.

   finch common in winter in the northern U.S.

   Synonymstree sparrow

   BroaderNew World sparrow

   Part ofSpizella

Questions about spizella arborea

What does spizella arborea mean?

spizella arborea means "finch common in winter in the northern U.S.".

What is another word for spizella arborea?

Close synonyms include tree 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 spizella arborea a common word?

spizella arborea 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.