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shrike

shrike [ shrīk ] (plural shrikes or shrike)


noun 
Definition:
 
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.

[Mid-16th century. Origin ?]
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