shrikes

We have found lemma(root) word of shrikes : shrike.

Definitions


[ʃrʌɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps related to Old English scrīc ‘thrush’ and Middle Low German schrīk ‘corncrake’, of imitative origin




definition by Oxford Dictionaries