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Large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns
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butcherbird
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context South Africa English) The (vern: fiscal shrike), (taxlink Lanius collaris species noshow=1) 2 any of the magpie-like birds in the genus ''Cracticus''
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
butcher bird \butcher bird\, butcher-bird \butcher-bird\, butcherbird \butcherbird\n. (Zo["o]l.) any species of shrike of the genus Lanius , so called because they impale their prey on thorns. (Zo["o]l.) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrikelike ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Butcherbirds are magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus. They are native to Australasia . The Australian magpie has recently been placed in the same genus, and this new taxonomy has been supported by recent phylogenetic analyses. Together with three species ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. shrikes that impale their prey on thorns large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns
Usage examples of butcherbird.
It's of the butcherbird family, but mostly adapted to life on the ground.
And then he was gone and I swam down to Elizabeth and shooed away the butcherbirds and read the note written on the bottom of her foot: cheep.