Shrike

[ʃraɪk]

解释:

(noun.) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals.

德怀特手打--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

埃迪校对

同义词及近义词：

n. Butcher-bird (Lanius excubitor).

赫尔曼手打

解释:

n. a genus of passerine birds which prey on insects and small birds impaling its prey on thorns—hence called the Butcher-bird.

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