shrike
/ʃraɪk/noun
1- a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns伯劳。亦称BUTCHER-BIRD.
1.1
- Family Laniidae: several genera and numerous species, especially in Africa, e.g. the great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor), of both Eurasia and North America.伯劳科：数属, 多种, 尤指非洲的灰伯劳（拉丁名Lanius excubitor）以及欧亚大陆和北美的种类。
1.2
- used in names of similar birds of other families, e.g. cuckoo-shrike, pepper-shrike［用于其他科类似鸟的名称中, 如cuckoo-shrike, pepper-shrike］。
词源
mid 16th cent.: perhaps related to Old English scrīc 'thrush' and Middle Low German schrīk 'corncrake', of imitative origin.