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 "meadow lark".
And they came to an opening between two bluffs, and here Loden signed for all to stop and he whistled as would a meadow lark.
The birds were fussing, and then they stopped and from somewhere across the meadow he heard a meadow lark, as he had heard them in the fields as a boy.
No blade stirred in the coolness, nor any bird in the sky, only somewhere not too far off, a meadow lark spoke inquiringly into the morning.
Two months ago, whin I was sthrong an' well an' sittin' happy as a meadow lark at your side, the same black shadow dhrifted over me heart.
Then he went out and chopped wood until he heard Lovin Child chirping inside the cabin like a bug-hunting meadow lark, when he had to hurry in before Lovin Child crawled off the bunk and got into some mischief.