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meadowlark
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Word definitions for meadowlark in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several songbirds, of the genus ''Sturnella'', native to North America
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Meadowlarks are New World grassland birds belonging to the genus Sturnella . This genus includes seven species of largely insectivorous grassland birds. In all species the male at least has a black or brown back and extensively red or yellow underparts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
meadowlark \meadowlark\, meadow lark \meadow lark\n. (Zo["o]l.), Any species of Sturnella , a genus of North American songbirds allied to the starlings. The common species ( Sturnella magna ) has a yellow breast with a black crescent. Syn: lark.
Usage examples of meadowlark.
December and Henry and I are on our way to Meadowlark House for Christmas.
When we came to visit, Clare would walk through the front door of the Meadowlark House and straight out the back door to find Lucille, who was almost always in the garden, rain or shine.
I smell detergent, it reminds me of Etta, and I want Etta but she is at Meadowlark, and I look up at Henry who is wearing surgical scrubs and I think why are we here we should be at home and then I feel as though Alba is surging, rushing and I push without thinking and we do this again and again like a game, like a song.
The back door of Meadowlark House will slam, and two tiny figures in fluorescent orange will emerge, carrying matchstick rifles.
Next he rolled a cigarette, and, quietly smoking, he listened woozily to fault meadowlark songs drifting melodically on the clear summer air.
Somewhere a meadowlark called, and far overhead a buzzard swung in lazy loops, watching for what might develop.
She watched a bright yellow-breasted meadowlark trill gloriously from an open perch, then take to wing and continue its song in flight A pair of golden-crowned sparrows, warbling their woeful tune of descending pitch, flitted among the blackberry canes at the border of the open field.
The sun dappled the landscape in shades of white and gray and the gentle call of the meadowlark kept them company on the isolated hilltop.
After a while the meadowlarks began to sing again, but their melodious calls were out of place, foreign in this gray, snowy landscape.
Everything there is sunlit green and golden, and the meadowlarks sing through the day.
The sky was a flawless sapphire blue with the touch of the sun as warm and gentle as a benediction while the meadowlarks filled the air with their soft melodies.
Papa realize that morning that he was never to see us or hold us again, nor would he ever again harken to the meadowlarks of Yell County trilling a joyous anthem to spring.
Blazing hot summer mornings when the meadowlarks called and the trout leaped.
He drove south from King City over the county road, through the gathering forces of spring, and the meadowlarks flew ahead, bubbling melody from the fence wires.
He'd spotted a mountain plover, a long-billed curlew, a burrowing owl and a horned lark, plus the usual assortment of lark sparrows, yellow warblers, western meadowlarks, red-winged blackbirds, crows, black terns and mourning doves.