SHARP-TAILED SPARROW

Meaning of SHARP-TAILED SPARROW in English

noun

or sharp-tailed finch

: a No. American sparrow ( Ammospiza caudacuta ) having narrow pointed tail feathers and inhabiting salt marshes

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

SHARP-TAILED SPARROW — a sparrow, Ammospiza caudacuta, inhabiting salt marshes in North America, having narrow, sharply pointed tail feathers. [ 1825-35, Amer. ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPARROW — sparro. ~HAWK: sparvero
English interlingue dictionary
TAILED — adjective see: tail
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SPARROW — noun Etymology: Middle English sparow, from Old English spearwa; akin to Old High German sparo ~ Date: before 12th century …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SPARROW — I Any of numerous species of small, chiefly seed-eating songbirds having a conical bill, particularly members of the Old World …
Английский словарь Британика
SHARP — I. ˈshärp, ˈshȧp adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scearp; akin to Old High German scarf …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TAILED — ˈtā(ə)ld adjective Etymology: Middle English, from tail + -ed 1. : having a tail 2. [from past participle of tail …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SPARROW — ˈspa](ˌ)rō, ]_rə; ]_rəw, ]_rō+V; also ˈspe]\ noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English sparwe, sparowe, sparow, from Old English spearwa; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TAILED — (a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, …
Английский словарь Webster
SPARROW — (n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European …
Английский словарь Webster
SPARROW — (n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on …
Английский словарь Webster
TAILED — ( a. ) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPARROW — ( n. ) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SPARROW — ( n. ) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
TAILED — /tayld/ , adj. 1. having a tail. 2. having a tail of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SPARROW — — sparrowless , adj. — sparrowlike , adj. /spar"oh/ , n. 1. any of numerous American finches of the family …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SHARP — — sharply , adv. — sharpness , n. /shahrp/ , adj., sharper, sharpest , v., adv., n. adj. 1. having …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TAILED — adj. having a tail
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SPARROW — n. any of a number of small songbirds
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
TAILED — see tail I
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHARP — I. ˈshärp adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scearp; akin to Old High German scarf sharp and perhaps to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SPARROW — noun Etymology: Middle English sparow, from Old English spearwa; akin to Old High German sparo sparrow Date: before 12th century …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TAILED — adj having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, …
Webster English vocab
SPARROW — noun any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the european …
Webster English vocab
SHARP — noun a sharp tone or note. 2. sharp ·noun a sharp tool or weapon. 3. sharp ·noun ·same·as middlings, 1. …
Webster English vocab
SPARROW — ■ noun a small, typically brown and grey finch-like bird related to the weaver birds. [ Passer domesticus ( house …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SPARROW — [spar.row] n [ME sparow, fr. OE spearwa; akin to OHG sparo sparrow] (bef. 12c) 1: any of a genus (Passer …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHARP — [sharp] adj [ME, fr. OE scearp; akin to OHG scarf sharp and perh. to OE scrapian to scrape--more at scrape] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SPARROW — any of a number of small, chiefly seed-eating birds having conical bills. The name sparrow is most firmly attached to …
Britannica English vocabulary
-TAILED — -tailed BrE AmE ˈteɪ ə ld ▷ — long-tailed ˌlɒŋ ˈteɪ ə ld ◂ AmE \ ˌlɔːŋ- ˌlɑːŋ-
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SPARROW — sparrow, S~ BrE AmE ˈspær əʊ AmE -oʊ ˈsper- ▷ sparrow|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHARP — / ʃɑːp; NAmE ʃɑːrp/ adjective , adverb , noun ■ adjective ( sharp·er , sharp·est ) EDGE / POINT 1. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHARP — I. sharp 1 S3 W2 /ʃɑːp $ ʃɑːrp/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative sharper , superlative sharpest ) [ Word …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SPARROW — n. 1 any small brownish-grey bird of the genus Passer, esp. the house sparrow and tree sparrow. 2 any of …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHARP — adj., n., adv., & v. --adj. 1 having an edge or point able to cut or pierce. 2 tapering to …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SPARROW — n. 1 any small brownish-grey bird of the genus Passer, esp. the house sparrow and tree sparrow. 2 any of …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHARP — adj., n., adv., & v. adj. 1 having an edge or point able to cut or pierce. 2 tapering to …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SPARROW — n.1 any small brownish-grey bird of the genus Passer, esp. the house sparrow and tree sparrow. 2 any of various …
Oxford English vocab
SHARP — adj., n., adv., & v. --adj. 1. having an edge or point able to cut or pierce. 2 tapering to …
Oxford English vocab
-TAILED — see tail
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SPARROW — ( sparrows) A sparrow is a small brown bird that is very common in Britain. N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHARP — ( sharps, sharper, sharpest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A sharp …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
-TAILED — see tail
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SPARROW — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A curious sparrow follows them, mixing its ries with theirs. ▪ And ivy is where …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHARP — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a clear/sharp outline ▪ Peeling off the tape after the paint has dried leaves …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SPARROW — n. house sparrow English sparrow sparrow hawk
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SPARROW — n. Any of numerous species of small, chiefly seed-eating songbirds having a conical bill, particularly members of the Old World …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SPARROW
Slang English vocab
SHARP — n. Function: adjective 1 having a fine edge FF1C; a sharp knife makes a clean cut FF1E; Synonyms: honed, keen, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SHARP — I. sharp adjective 1. having a fine edge a sharp knife makes a clean cut Synonyms: honed, keen, razor-sharp, unblunted, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
SPARROW — noun Sparrow is used after these nouns: ↑ house
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SHARP — INDEX: 1. sharp 2. to make something sharp 3. not sharp RELATED WORDS see also ↑ CUT ↑ END (4) …
Longman Activator English vocab
SHARP — adj. 25B6; adjective a sharp knife : KEEN, razor-edged; sharpened, honed. a sharp pain : EXCRUCIATING, agonizing, intense, stabbing, shooting, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
TAILED — dilate detail
Anagrams English vocabulary
SPARROW — (Heb. tzippor, from a root signifying to "chirp" or "twitter," which appears to be a phonetic representation of the call-note …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
TAILED — хвостатый - tailed curve хвостатый бесхвостый; с отрубленным хвостом > * rhyme стих с нерифмованной заключительной строкой
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SPARROW
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHARP — 1. прил. 1) острый; остроконечный, отточенный Syn : keen 2) сообразительный, наблюдательный, острый, проницательный (об интеллектуальных способностях человека) Syn : …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TAILED — Хвостатый
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
TAILED — tailed.ogg teıld a 1. хвостатый 2. бесхвостый; с отрубленным хвостом tailed rhyme - стих с нерифмованной заключительной строкой
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SPARROW — sparrow.ogg ʹspærəʋ n зоол. воробей ( Passer ) the fall of a sparrow - а) библ. падение малой птицы; б) …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SHARP — sharp.ogg 1. ʃɑ:p n 1. разг. жулик, мошенник, шулер sharps and flats - жулики и простаки см. тж. 3 2. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
TAILED — хвостатый - tailed curve
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
SHARP — 1) заостренный 2) крутой 3) остроконечный 4) острый 5) отчетливый 6) резкий 7) резок 8) ровно 9) точно 10) фазовый • sharp cut-off filter — фильтр с крутым срезом - sharp boundary - …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь

Webster's New International English Dictionary

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