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meadowlark
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.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several songbirds, of the genus ''Sturnella'', native to North America
WordNet
n. North American yellow-breasted songbirds [syn: lark]
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.
A meadowlark is a bird belonging to the genus Sturnella in the New World family Icteridae.
Meadowlark or Meadowlarks may also refer to:
- the Meadowlark (train), a train operated by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
- Meadowlark Airport, a small general aviation airport in Southern California
- Meadowlark Lemon (1932-2015), American basketball player and actor
- Northampton Meadowlarks, a minor league baseball team
- USS Meadowlark (AMS-196), a Falcon-class coastal minesweeper
- Meadowlark (song), Stephen Schwartz's musical The Baker's Wife
- "Meadowlarks", a song by Fleet Foxes from their first album
- Meadowlark, a holistic retreat created by Evarts G. Loomis
- The Meadowlarks, a musical group
- Meadowlark Ultralight Meadowlark, ultralight aircraft
- Meadow Lark Lake
- Meadowlark Botanical Gardens
Meadowlark is a song from the musical The Baker's Wife, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. It has been performed by several famous Broadway singers such as Carole Demas, Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley, Liz Callaway, Alice Ripley, Susan Egan, Judy Kuhn, Julia Murney, Sarah Brightman, Alex Newell and Andrew Rannells.
In the musical, it is sung by the character Geneviève, trying to decide whether she should stay with her husband or run off with a younger man. She likens her situation to the fairy tale about a meadowlark who lived with a king who adored her. One day, the sun god approached the meadowlark and urged her to come with him. The meadowlark refused and perished. At the end of the song, Geneviève decides to leave with the younger man.
The Meadowlark was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad between Chicago, Illinois and Cypress, Illinois. It operated from 1946 to 1962. The Meadowlark was the C&EI's last train to Southern Illinois.
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.