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单词 field lark
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field lark
field lark n. (a) the skylark, Alauda arvensis (now rare); (b) any of several pipits (genus Anthus); esp. the meadow pipit, A. pratensis (now rare); (c) U.S. regional a meadowlark (genus Sturnella).See also old-field lark n. at old field n. Compounds 2.
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1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 172 There is a kinde of Larkes..whiche do not mounte as the long spurde fielde Larke doeth, but flee forheade before the Merlyn.
1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. ii. 207 Mr. Jessop suspects that there is yet another different sort of this bird, which may be called the lesser field-lark.
1713 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Avium et Piscium 69 The common Field Lark, or Sky-Lark.
a1883 G. W. Bagby Old Virginia Gentleman (1910) 126 We hear his gun go off, and he comes back presently bringing a field-lark in his hand.
1939 C. A. Naether Bk. of Pigeon vii. 147 This pigeon derives its name from the European field lark, in that each one of its wing feathers has the characteristic ‘larking’, that is a small, dark brown or chestnut brown triangle which points toward the tail.
1999 W. H. Turcotte & D. L. Watts Birds Mississippi 413/2 The Eastern Meadowlark, or ‘field lark’, is a bird of open, grassy country.
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