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shrike
n.
any of a number of insectivorous birds having a strong hooked and toothed bill
Shrike
Shrikes are
passerine birds of the family
Laniidae. The family is composed of thirty-one species in three
genera. The family name, and that of the largest genus,
Lanius, is derived from the
Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes are also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits. The common English name is evocative of the bird's shrill call. They are fairly closely related to the bush-shrike family
Malaconotidae.
shrike
Noun
1. any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
(hypernym) oscine, oscine bird
(hyponym) butcherbird
(member-holonym) Laniidae, family Laniidae
Shrike
(v. i.)
Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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