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meadowlark

noun

Etymology

From meadow + lark.

  1. inherited from *laiwarikǭ✻
  2. inherited from *laiwarikā✻
  3. inherited from lāwerce
  4. inherited from larke
  5. compounded as meadowlark — “meadow + lark”

Definitions

  1. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

  2. Any of several songbirds of the genera Sturnella and Leistes, native to the Americas.

    • Closing it behind me and away I do run / To the meadow where the meadowlark is singing in the trees
    • Your voice is like a meadowlark / But your heart is like an ocean / Mysterious and dark

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA