| NOUN | a hedge sparrow | hedge sparrows |
| SYNO | dunnock | hedge sparrow | Prunella modularis | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- Linnaeus based his description on the "American Hedge-Sparrow" that George Edwards had described and illustrated in his 1750 work, "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds", from a specimen collected in Jamaica.
- Two ships of the United States Navy have been named "Accentor", after the accentor, a bird most notably the hedge sparrow.
- 9 Grasmücke (Hedge-sparrow) was a 1920s German two-seat touring, advertising and training biplane.
- The name Dunnockshaw probably comes from the words "dunnock", a small bird known locally as a hedge sparrow, and "shaw" (Old English [...]), a small woodland or thicket.
- In time they meet a hedge-sparrow; the raven tells the hedge-sparrow that if he fetches the hungry raven worms, in return the raven will pay him four pieces of gold.
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