black-fronted bush shrike
- noun
- South African
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buitre de frente negra
- The black-fronted bush shrike is admired for its vivid plumage and melodic song throughout the African woodlands.
Examples
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Unlike other shrikes, the black-fronted bush shrike prefers dense vegetation for nesting and feeding.
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Birdwatchers traveled to the reserve hoping to spot a black-fronted bush shrike among the trees.
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The black-fronted bush shrike is known for its striking appearance.
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There are many black-fronted bush shrikes in the savannah.
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Birdwatchers traveled to the reserve hoping to spot a black-fronted bush shrike among the trees.
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The black-fronted bush shrike is admired for its vivid plumage and melodic song throughout the African woodlands.
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Unlike other shrikes, the black-fronted bush shrike prefers dense vegetation for nesting and feeding.
Synonyms
A small African bird with a black forehead that sings loudly in woodlands
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a transparent descriptive compound: 'black-fronted' denotes having a black front/face and 'bush shrike' names a type of shrike associated with bushy habitat, so the overall meaning ('a bush shrike with a black front') is directly derivable from the parts. Such attributive compounds are cross-linguistically common and follow regular English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Black-fronted bush shrike gets its name from how it looks and where it lives: black-fronted because it has a 'black front' or face, bush because it lives in thick bushes, and shrike because it is a small singing bird. So the name helps you remember it is a bright African bird with a black face that sings in the bushes.
