meadowlark
nounEtymology From meadow + lark.
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 trees1971, Dolly Parton, “Early Morning Breeze”:
- Your voice is like a meadowlark / But your heart is like an ocean / Mysterious and dark1976, Bob Dylan, “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)”, in Desire:
- Derived terms
- eastern meadowlark, long-tailed meadowlark, Western meadowlark, western meadowlark