单词 | old-field lark |
释义 | > as lemmasold-field lark old-field lark n. U.S. regional a meadow pipit; = meadowlark n. (b) at meadow n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus pratensis (titlark) titlingc1550 linget1552 lark1602 chit1610 meadowlark1611 cucknel1655 titlark1666 cheeper1684 moss-cheeper1684 old-field lark1805 ling-bird1814 tit-pipit1817 meadow pipit1825 meadow titling1828 furze-lark1854 peep1859 1805 W. Clark Jrnl. 12 Apr. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) IV. 28 I saw the Magpie in pa[i]rs, flocks of Grouse, the old Field lark & Crows. 1861 Southern Literary Messenger 33 30/2 The piercing note of crested red-birds and mellifluous old-field larks swell the concert. 1932 Ecol. Monogr. 2 183 A term which comes into common names of animals and plants is ‘old fields’. Thus we have ‘old field pine’ (Pinus taeda), ‘old field mouse’ (Peromyscus subgriseus), ‘old field lark’ (meadow lark) ‘old field-plover’ (black-bellied plover). < as lemmas |
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