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MEADOWLARK

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

North American songbirds having a yellow breast

Synonyms:

lark; meadowlark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("meadowlark" is a kind of...):

American oriole; New World oriole; oriole (American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meadowlark"):

eastern meadowlark; Sturnella magna (a meadowlark of eastern North America)

Sturnella neglecta; western meadowlark (a meadowlark of western North America)

Holonyms ("meadowlark" is a member of...):

genus Sturnella; Sturnella (a genus of passerine birds including the meadowlarks)

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