burion

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English

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Etymology

From Mexican Spanish burrión, perhaps alteration of Spanish gorrión (“sparrow”).[1]

Noun

burion (plural burions)

  1. (archaic) A red-breasted house sparrow of California (Haemorhous mexicanus, formerly Carpodacus mexicanus, Carpodacus frontalis).

Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “burion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

  1. ^ “burion”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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