northern shrike

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   a butcherbird of northern North America

   SynonymsLanius borealis

   Broaderbutcherbird

Questions about northern shrike

What does northern shrike mean?

northern shrike means "a butcherbird of northern North America".

What is another word for northern shrike?

Close synonyms include Lanius borealis. 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 northern shrike a common word?

northern shrike 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.