grasshopper sparrow
grasshopper sparrow
nounDefinition of GRASSHOPPER SPARROW
: a small American sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) that is grayish brown above with a pale belly and has a high-pitched buzzing song that resembles the stridulation of grasshoppers
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1898
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