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单词 murdering bird
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murdering birdn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: murdering adj., bird n.
Etymology: < murdering adj. + bird n., after post-classical Latin lanius, specific use of classical Latin lanius butcher, slaughterer (see laniary adj.). Compare earlier nine-murder n.
English regional. Obsolete.
A shrike; esp. the red-backed shrike, Lanius collurio, or the great grey shrike, L. excubitor. Cf. murdering pie n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike)
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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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