Word Type

Noun

The word "shrike" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

African long-tailed shrike antshrike brown shrike bush shrike chatshrike crow-shrike cuckoo shrike cuckooshrike drongo shrike en flycatcher-shrike great grey shrike great northern shrike helmetshrike isabelline shrike lesser grey shrike loggerhead shrike long-tailed shrike magpie shrike masked shrike mountain shrike northern shrike peppershrike piping shrike red-backed shrike red-tailed shrike shrike tit shrike-babbler shrike-flycatcher shrike-tanager shrike-vireo shrikebill shrikelike shrikethrush shriketit swallow shrike toddy shrike white-crowned shrike white-tailed shrike woodchat shrike woodshrike

Etymologically Related To

screech shriek

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

oscine oscine bird

Type Of (IsA)

bird metaphor for writing oscine

Related Terms

bird laniidae passerine

Synonym Network

butcherbird

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.