Definition of "woodlark" [woodlark]

• An Old World songbird (Lullula arborea) resembling the skylark. (noun)

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• "They will remove small pine that, if left, would swamp the open heath and drive out scarce wildlife such as woodlark, common lizard and a range of attractive butterflies and moths, including the stately Emperor moth."
• "Peter Szöke, on his bizarre record The Unknown Music of Birds, slows down woodlark song and makes a soloist from the Budapest opera sing it so beautifully that I weep to hear it."
• "The tailor drove quietly to church, and the princess was married to him at once, and he lived with her as happy as a woodlark."