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bush-shrike

bush-shrike is the alternative form of bush shrike.

Meaning of bush shrike

Noun

bush shrike (plural bush shrikes)

  1. An African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae.
  2. (obsolete) Any bird of the American family Thamnophilidae; an antshrike.
    • In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 63

Forms of bush-shrike

pluralbush-shrikes

Questions about bush-shrike

What is bush-shrike the alternative form of?
Bush-shrike is the alternative form of bush shrike.

Words near bush-shrike in the dictionary

  1. bush-Kanaka
  2. bush-Kanakas
  3. bush-league
  4. bush-made
  5. bush-metal
  6. bush-shrike
  7. bush-shrikes
  8. bush-telegraph
  9. bush-telegraphs
  10. busha
  11. Bushard

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