Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the character of a lark; pertaining to the Alaudidæ or lark family.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to skylarks.
Examples
“Forty-two of my new-found animaline adjectives refer to birds: alaudine skylark W*In this, and other lists below, the individual forms are followed by the common names of the species, genera, etc., to which they refer, the dates of the earliest and latest citations at hand, and sigla reporting each form's presence in one or more sources.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alaudine’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
mollusque Can it be extended to apply to Buicks in general? Jun 17, 2008
johnmperry pertaining to skylarks
Jun 17, 2008