lanius excubitor

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   a common European butcherbird

   SynonymsEuropean shrike

   Broaderbutcherbird

Questions about lanius excubitor

What does lanius excubitor mean?

lanius excubitor means "a common European butcherbird".

What is another word for lanius excubitor?

Close synonyms include European 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 excubitor a common word?

lanius excubitor 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.