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| shrike [ shrīk ] (plural shrikes or shrike) |
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bird that impales its prey: a brown or gray songbird with a screeching call and a hooked beak that eats insects and small animals that it impales on sharp objects such as thorns. Family Laniidae.
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| [Mid-16th century. Origin ?] |
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