"murderbird" meaning in All languages combined

See murderbird on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: murderbirds [plural]
Etymology: From murder + bird. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|murder|bird}} murder + bird Head templates: {{en-noun}} murderbird (plural murderbirds)
  1. (rare) The butcherbird, the shrike. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-murderbird-en-noun-YB16Oerj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Shrikes

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "murder",
        "3": "bird"
      },
      "expansion": "murder + bird",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From murder + bird.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "murderbirds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "murderbird (plural murderbirds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Shrikes",
          "orig": "en:Shrikes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:murderbird."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The butcherbird, the shrike."
      ],
      "id": "en-murderbird-en-noun-YB16Oerj",
      "links": [
        [
          "butcherbird",
          "butcherbird"
        ],
        [
          "shrike",
          "shrike"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The butcherbird, the shrike."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "murderbird"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "murder",
        "3": "bird"
      },
      "expansion": "murder + bird",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From murder + bird.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "murderbirds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "murderbird (plural murderbirds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Shrikes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:murderbird."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The butcherbird, the shrike."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "butcherbird",
          "butcherbird"
        ],
        [
          "shrike",
          "shrike"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The butcherbird, the shrike."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "murderbird"
}

Download raw JSONL data for murderbird meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.