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Alaudidae

noun

larks

• Syn: ↑family Alaudidae

• Hypernyms: ↑bird family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Oscines, ↑suborder Oscines, ↑Passeres, ↑suborder Passeres

• Member Meronyms: ↑lark, ↑Alauda, ↑genus Alauda

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\\-dəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Alauda, type genus + -idae

: a family of usually brownish terrestrial gregarious passerine birds comprising the larks and having the hind claw elongated and more or less straight

Useful english dictionary. 2012.