shrike
noun /ʃraɪk/
/ʃraɪk/
- a bird with a strong beak, that catches small birds and insects and sticks them on thorns
Topics Birdsc2伯劳(鸟,喙强有力,扑捉到小鸟和昆虫后将其挂在荆棘上) 词源mid 16th cent.: perhaps related to Old English scrīc ‘thrush’ and Middle Low German schrīk ‘corncrake’, of imitative origin.