| 单词 | murdering bird | 
| 释义 | † murdering birdn. English regional. Obsolete.   A shrike; esp. the red-backed shrike,  Lanius collurio, or the great grey shrike,  L. excubitor. Cf. murdering pie n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > 			[noun]		 > family Laniidae (shrike) warianglec1386 nine-murder1544 shrike1544 butcherbird1666 murdering bird1666 nine-killer1778 larder bird1948 1666    C. Merrett Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum 170  				Lanius, the Butcher, or murdering Bird. 1802    G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Shrike—Cinereous  				Provincial. Mattages. Wierangle. Murdering-bird. Skreek, or Skrike. 1817    T. Forster Synoptical Catal. Brit. Birds 4  				Lanius Excubitor..Wierangle, Murdering Bird, Murdering Pie, Skreek, Skrike,..or French Pie. 1885    C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 47  				Red-backed shrike... from its cruelty and voracity this bird is called Butcher bird, Murdering bird, Nine killer. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). <  | 
	
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