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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the larger tyrant-flycatchers with a stout bill resembling a shrike's, as any species of the genus Tyrannus proper, like the king-bird or bee-martin. Some of these used to be placed in the genus Lanius, being mistaken for shrikes. See cut under king-bird.

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