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bush shrike

bush shrike noun: an African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae.

bush shrike: an African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae
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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
alternative formbush-shrike
alternative formbushshrike

Questions about bush shrike

What does bush shrike mean?
Bush shrike means an African passerine bird of the family Malaconotidae.
What part of speech is bush shrike?
Bush shrike is a noun.
What is the plural of bush shrike?
The plural of bush shrike is bush shrikes.

Words near bush shrike in the dictionary

  1. bush regeneration
  2. bush rose
  3. bush rum
  4. bush salute
  5. bush salutes
  6. bush shrike
  7. bush shrikes
  8. bush sickness
  9. bush song
  10. bush songs
  11. bush stone-curlew

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