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Passer domesticus   Listen
Passer domesticus

noun
1.
Small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe.  Synonyms: English sparrow, house sparrow.





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"Passer domesticus" Quotes from Famous Books



... SPARROW (Passer domesticus).—One curious fact about this despised animal is that the retired farmer, after whom Elderfield is named, made it his business to exterminate the village sparrows. He often brought them down to one, but always by the next morning that sparrow had provided himself with ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge


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