shrike
Shrike is a 6 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter E for which we found 1 definitions.
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| (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae having a strong hooked bill toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor) the great northern shrike (L. borealis) and several others kill mice small birds etc. and often impale them on thorns and are on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher. |
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The word shrike is a 6 letter word that has 1 syllable . The syllable division for shrike is: shrike
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