white-throated sparrow

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   common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown

   SynonymswhitethroatZonotrichia albicollis

   BroaderNew World sparrow

   Part ofZonotrichia

Questions about white-throated sparrow

What does white-throated sparrow mean?

white-throated sparrow means "common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown".

What is another word for white-throated sparrow?

Close synonyms include whitethroat, Zonotrichia albicollis. 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 white-throated sparrow a common word?

white-throated sparrow 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.