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Definition and meaning of lark

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lark (n.)

1.brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height

2.any carefree episode

3.any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing

4.a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

5.North American songbirds having a yellow breast

lark (v.)

1.play boisterously"The children frolicked in the garden" "the gamboling lambs in the meadows" "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

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Merriam Webster

LarkLark (lärk), n. [Perh fr. AS. lāc play, sport. Cf. Lake, v. i.] A frolic; a jolly time. [Colloq.] Dickens.

LarkLark, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Larked (lärkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Larking.] To sport; to frolic. [Colloq.]

LarkLark, n. [OE. larke, laverock, AS. lāwerce; akin to D. leeuwerik, LG. lewerke, OHG. lērahha, G. lerche, Sw. lärka, Dan. lerke, Icel. lævirki.] (Zoöl.) Any one numerous species of singing birds of the genus Alauda and allied genera (family Alaudidæ). They mostly belong to Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. In America they are represented by the shore larks, or horned larks, of the genus Otocoris. The true larks have holaspidean tarsi, very long hind claws, and, usually, dull, sandy brown colors.

☞ The European skylark, or lark of the poets (Alauda arvensis), is of a brown mottled color, and is noted for its clear and sweet song, uttered as it rises and descends almost perpendicularly in the air. It is considered a table delicacy, and immense numbers are killed for the markets. Other well-known European species are the crested, or tufted, lark (Alauda cristata), and the wood lark (Alauda arborea). The pipits, or titlarks, of the genus Anthus (family Motacillidæ) are often called larks. See Pipit. The American meadow larks, of the genus Sturnella, are allied to the starlings. See Meadow Lark. The Australian bush lark is Mirafra Horsfieldii. See Shore lark.

Lark bunting (Zoöl.), a fringilline bird (Calamospiza melanocorys) found on the plains of the Western United States. -- Lark sparrow (Zoöl.), a sparrow (Chondestes grammacus), found in the Mississippi Valley and the Western United States.

LarkLark, v. i. To catch larks; as, to go larking.

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lark (v.)

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Abyssinian Lark • Aero Commander Lark Commander • Agulhas Clapper Lark • Agulhas Long-billed Lark • Algulhas Long-billed Lark • Angola Lark • Archer's Lark • Ash's Lark • Ashy-crowned Finch-lark • Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark • Ashy-crowned Sparrow-lark • Asian Short-toed Lark • Athi Short-toed Lark • Bar-tailed Lark • Barlow's Lark • Benguela Long-billed Lark • Bimaculated Lark • Black Lark • Black-crowned Sparrow-lark • Black-eared Sparrow-lark • Blanford's Short-toed Lark • Botha's Lark • C-Lark • CSS Lark • Calandra Lark • Cape Clapper Lark • Cape Long-billed Lark • Chestnut-backed Sparrow-lark • Chestnut-headed Sparrow-lark • Clapper Lark • Collared Lark • Crested Lark • Dedicate Lark • Degodi Lark • Desert Lark • Drama of the Lark • Dune Lark • Dunn's Lark • Dupont's Lark • Dusky Lark • Eastern Clapper Lark • Eastern Long-billed Lark • Erlanger's Lark • Fawn-coloured Lark • Fischer's Sparrow-lark • Flappet Lark • Foxy Lark • Friedmann's Lark • Gillett's Lark • Gray's Lark • Gray-backed Sparrow-Lark • Greater Hoopoe-lark • Greater Short-toed Lark • Grey-backed Sparrow-lark • HMS Lark • HMS Lark (1762) • HMS Lark (1794) • Hoopoe Lark • Horned Lark • Horned lark • Hoyt W. Lark • Indian Lark • Indian Short-toed Lark • Island Lark (log canoe) • Jim Lark • Karoo Lark • Karoo Long-billed Lark • Keleher Lark • Kordofan Lark • L'Alouette (The Lark) • Lady Lark • Large-billed Lark • Lark (UK band) • Lark (band) • Lark (cigarette) • Lark (dinghy) • Lark (disambiguation) • Lark (passenger train) • Lark (person) • Lark Bunting • Lark Camp • Lark Force • Lark Harbor • Lark Harbour • Lark Harbour, NFLD • Lark Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador • Lark Hill, Queensland • Lark Island • Lark Lane, Liverpool • Lark News • Lark Pien • Lark Quarry Conservation Park • Lark Rise to Candleford • Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series) • Lark Sparrow • Lark Street • Lark Theater • Lark Voorhees • Lark Voorhies • Lark foot • Lark head • Lark in the Morning • Lark on My Go-Kart • Lark's tongue • Lark, Utah • Lark, Wisconsin • Lark-like Brushrunner • Lark-like Bunting • Latakoo Lark • Lesser Hoopoe-lark • Lesser Short-toed Lark • Long-billed Lark • Madagascar Lark • Magpie lark • Magpie-lark • Malabar Crested Lark • Malabar Lark • Malabar crested lark • Maria Lark • Masked Lark • Meadow Lark Lake • Meadow Lark Lake, Wyoming • Meadow Lark Road • Michael Lark • Mongolian Lark • Monotonous Lark • Navy Lark • Obbia Lark • Oriental Lark • Pink-billed Lark • Pink-breasted Lark • Poisoning the Lark • Raso Lark • Red Lark • Red-capped Lark • Red-winged Lark • River Lark • Rockwell Lark Commander • Rudd's Lark • Rufous Short-toed Lark • Rufous-naped Lark • Rufous-rumped Lark • Rufous-tailed Lark • Rugged Lark • Rusty Lark • Sabota Lark • Sand Lark • Sarah Lark • Sclater's Lark • Shannon Lark • Shore Lark • Short-clawed Lark • Short-tailed Lark • Short-toed Lark • Short-toed lark • Sidamo Lark • Singing Lark • Sky Lark • Sky lark • Somali Lark • Song of the lark • Spike-heeled Lark • Stark's Lark • Studebaker Lark • Sun Lark • Susan Lark • Syke's Lark • Sykes's Lark • T.V. Lark • Tan Lark Sye • Tawny Lark • Temminck's Horned Lark • Temminck's Lark • The Big Business Lark • The Embassy Lark • The Lark Ascending • The Lark in the Morning (album) • The Navy Lark • The Navy Lark (film) • The Singing, Springing Lark • The Song of the Lark • Thekla Lark • Thick-billed Lark • Tibetan Lark • USS Lark • USS Lark (AM-21) • USS Lark (AMS-23) • USS Lark (MSC(O)-23) • West Ken-Lark, Florida • Wheat Field with a Lark • White-tailed Lark • White-winged Lark • Williams's Lark • Wood lark • Wreck Sites of H.M.S. Cerberus and H.M.S. Lark • Yogi's Ark Lark

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Lark

                   

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. All species occur in the Old World, and in northern and eastern Australia; only one, the Horned Lark, has spread to North America. Habitats vary widely, but many species live in dry regions.

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  Description

Larks are small- to medium-sized birds, 12 to 24 cm (5 to 8 inches) in length and 15 to 75 grams (0.5 to 2.6 ounces) in weight (Kikkawa 2003).

They have more elaborate calls than most birds, and often extravagant songs given in display flight (Kikkawa 2003). These melodious sounds (to human ears), combined with a willingness to expand into anthropogenic habitats — as long as these are not too intensively managed — have ensured larks a prominent place in literature and music, especially the Eurasian Skylark in northern Europe and the Crested Lark and Calandra Lark in southern Europe.

With these song flights, males defend their breeding territories and attract mates. Most species build nests on the ground, usually cups of dead grass, but in some species more complicated and partly domed. A few desert species nest very low in bushes, perhaps so circulating air can cool the nest. Larks' eggs are usually speckled, and clutch sizes range from 2 (especially in species of the driest deserts) to 6 (in species of temperate regions). Larks incubate for 11 to 16 days (Kikkawa 2003).

Like many ground birds, most lark species have long hind claws, which are thought to provide stability while standing. Most have streaked brown plumage, some boldly marked with black or white. Their dull appearance camouflages them on the ground, especially when on the nest. They feed on insects and seeds; though adults of most species eat seeds primarily, all species feed their young insects for at least the first week after hatching. Many species dig with their bills to uncover food. Some larks have heavy bills (reaching an extreme in the Thick-billed Lark) for cracking seeds open, while others have long, down-curved bills, which are especially suitable for digging (Kikkawa 2003).

Larks are the only passerines that lose all their feathers in their first moult (in all species whose first moult is known). This may result from the poor quality of the chicks' feathers, which in turn may result from the benefits to the parents of switching the young to a lower-quality diet (seeds), which requires less work from the parents (Kikkawa 2003).

In many respects, including long tertial feathers, larks resemble other ground birds such as pipits. However, in larks the tarsus (the lowest leg bone, connected to the toes) has only one set of scales on the rear surface, which is rounded. Pipits and all other songbirds have two plates of scales on the rear surface, which meet at a protruding rear edge (Ridgway 1907).

  Relationships

Larks are a well-defined family, partly because of the shape of their tarsus (Ridgway 1907). They were long placed at or near the beginning of the songbirds or oscines (now often called Passeri), just after the suboscines and before the swallows, for example in the American Ornithologists' Union's first check-list (American Ornithologists' Union 1886, according to Patterson 2002). Some authorities, such as the British Ornithologists' Union (Dudley et al. 2006) and the Handbook of the Birds of the World, adhere to that placement. However, many other classifications follow the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy in placing the larks in a large oscine subgroup Passerida (which excludes crows, shrikes and their allies, vireos, and many groups characteristic of Australia and southeastern Asia). For instance, the American Ornithologists' Union places larks just after the crows, shrikes, and vireos. At a finer level of detail, some now place the larks at the beginning of a superfamily Sylvioidea with the swallows, various "Old World warbler" and "babbler" groups, and others (Barker et al. 2002, Alström et al. 2006).

  Cultural meanings

  Larks as food

Larks, commonly consumed with bones intact, have historically been considered wholesome, delicate, and light game. They can be used in a number of dishes, for example, they can be stewed, broiled, or used as filling in a meat pie. Lark's tongues were particularly highly valued. In modern times, shrinking habitats made lark meat rare and hard to come by, though it can still be found in restaurants in Italy and elsewhere in Southern Europe (Hooper).

  Symbolism

The lark in mythology and literature stands for daybreak, as in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale", "the bisy larke, mesager of day" (I.1487; Benson 1988), and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, "the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" (11-12). The lark is also (often simultaneously) associated with "lovers and lovers' observance" and with "church services" (Sylvester and Roberts 2000), and often those the meanings of daybreak and religious reference are combined (in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion, into a "spiritual daybreak" (Baine and Baine 1986)) to signify "passage from Earth to Heaven and from Heaven to Earth" (Stevens 2001). In Renaissance painters such as Domenico Ghirlandaio the lark symbolizes Christ, in reference to John 16:16 (Cadogan 2000).

  Species in taxonomic order

FAMILY: ALAUDIDAE

  See also

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