Definition of "passero" []

• A naval battle in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Passero in which the Spanish navy was destroyed by France and England while attempting to recover Sicily and Sardinia from Italy (1719) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There was also music of another kind coming from a passero solitario (the blue rock thrush) who was hanging in a cage in a doorway."
• "Here too I heard, or thought I heard, the song of that most beautiful of all bird songsters, the passero solitario, or solitary sparrow-if it is a sparrow, which I should doubt."
• "Nobody knows what a bird can do in the way of song until he has heard a passero solitario."