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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024shrike /ʃraɪk/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Birdsa songbird having a sharply hooked bill.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024shrike (shrīk),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsany of numerous predaceous oscine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong, hooked, and toothed bill, feeding on insects and sometimes on small birds and other animals: the members of certain species impale their prey on thorns or suspend it from the branches of trees to tear it apart more easily, and are said to kill more than is necessary for them to eat.
- Birdsany of several other birds having similar bills, as the vanga shrikes.
- Military(cap.) a 10-foot (3-m), 400-pound (180-kg) U.S. air-to-ground missile designed to destroy missile batteries by homing in on their radar emissions.
- 1535–45; perh. continuing Old English scrīc thrush; akin to Old Norse skrīkja to twitter; see shriek
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: shrike /ʃraɪk/ n - Also called: butcherbird any songbird of the chiefly Old World family Laniidae, having a heavy hooked bill and feeding on smaller animals which they sometimes impale on thorns, barbed wire, etc
Etymology: Old English scrīc thrush; related to Middle Dutch schrīk corncrake; see screech1, shriek |