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bush shrikes

bush shrikes is the plural 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

Questions about bush shrikes

What is bush shrikes the plural of?
Bush shrikes is the plural of bush shrike.

Words near bush shrikes in the dictionary

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

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