spizella pusilla

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   common North American finch of brushy pasturelands

   Synonymsfield sparrow

   BroaderNew World sparrow

   Part ofSpizella

Questions about spizella pusilla

What does spizella pusilla mean?

spizella pusilla means "common North American finch of brushy pasturelands".

What is another word for spizella pusilla?

Close synonyms include field 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 pusilla a common word?

spizella pusilla 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.