Definition of Alaudidae

1. Noun. Larks.

Exact synonyms: Family Alaudidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Lark, Alauda, Genus Alauda

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alaudidae

Alaska king crab
Alaska rein orchid
Alaska time
Alaskan
Alaskan Malamute
Alaskan Malamutes
Alaskan Native
Alaskan brown bear
Alaskan king crab
Alaskan malamute
Alaskan pipeline
Alaskans
Alastair
Alauda
Alauda arvensis
Alaudidae (current term)
Alawite
Alawites
Alban
Alban Berg
Albania
Albanian
Albanian capital
Albanian monetary unit
Albanianness
Albanians
Albanic
Albanisation
Albanologist
Albanologists

Literary usage of Alaudidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... behind it is smooth and generally compressed, except in the Alaudidae, which, ... I. Alaudidae.—The Larks inhabit the Palaearctic, Indian, and Ethiopian ..."

2. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the by David Starr Jordan (1878)
"... about one hundred species, mostly of the Old World, connecting the Alaudidae with the Sylvi- ... nor the hind toe long and straight, as in Alaudidae and ..."

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