Robin vs Sparrow - What's the difference?
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Various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly ), typically with a red breast.
# A European robin; ''Erithacus rubecula.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
# An American robin; Turdus migratorius .
The house sparrow, Passer domesticus ; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds.
Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
(UK, chiefly, London) A quick-witted, lively person. Often used in the phrase cockney sparrow .
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* 1878 , Ally Sloper's guide to the Paris exhibition , Charles Henry Ross, p. 54
As nouns the difference between robin and sparrow
is that robin is various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly family: Eopsaltridae), typically with a red breast while sparrow is the house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.As proper nouns the difference between robin and sparrow
is that robin is a given name derived from Germanic while Sparrow is {{surname}.robin
English
(wikipedia robin)Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Usage notes
The American robin is quite different from the European one: English settlers in America so named a red-breasted bird much larger than the European robin.Synonyms
* (all senses) redbreast, robin redbreast * (the European robin)Derived terms
* robin redbreast * round-robinExternal links
* (Erithacus rubecula) * (Turdus migratorius) * (Erithacus rubecula) * (Turdus migratorius) ----sparrow
English
(wikipedia sparrow)Noun
(en noun)Drama Faces: Martine McCutcheon, BBC
- Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.
- I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow .