shrike
noun/ʃraɪk/
/ʃraɪk/
- a bird with a strong beak, that catches small birds and insects and sticks them on thornsTopics Birdsc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps related to Old English scrīc ‘thrush’ and Middle Low German schrīk ‘corncrake’, of imitative origin.
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