a. [f. SPARROW.] Resembling a sparrow or that of a sparrow.

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1611.  Cotgr., Passerin, Sparrow-like, of … a Sparrow.

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1829.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, VI. 82. Sparrow-like Owl, Strix passerinoides.

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1851.  G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav. (1900), V. 116. Small clouds of sparrow-like snow-birds.

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1896.  Lloyd’s Nat. Hist., 87. The second type of egg is Sparrow-like.

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