titlark

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an old or regional name for a pipit, especially the meadow pipit of Europe and western Asia

   A lone titlark rose from the grass and gave its thin call.

Formed from tit-, as in titmouse, + lark. The name was applied to small, mainly ground-dwelling pipits whose appearance and song suggested both groups, although pipits are not true larks or tits.

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