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wood⋅chat

[wood-chat]
–noun
1. Also, woodchat shrike. a shrike, Lanius senator, of Europe and northern Africa, having a black forehead and a chestnut crown, nape, and mantle.
2. any of various Asiatic thrushes, esp. of the genus Larvivora.

Origin:
1695–1705; wood 1 + chat
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wood·chat   (wŏŏd'chāt')   
n.  An Old World shrike (Lanius senator) having black and white plumage with a reddish crown.
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