lanius borealis

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   a butcherbird of northern North America

   Synonymsnorthern shrike

   Broaderbutcherbird

Questions about lanius borealis

What does lanius borealis mean?

lanius borealis means "a butcherbird of northern North America".

What is another word for lanius borealis?

Close synonyms include northern shrike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lanius borealis a common word?

lanius borealis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.