Tawny Owl

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noun

1. a name (no longer in official use) for an assistant Brownie Guider

tawny owl

²

noun

1. a European owl, Strix aluco, having a reddish-brown or grey plumage, black eyes, and a round head Also calledbrown owlwood owl

Example Sentences

The white owl was out, with its peculiar grating cry; so was the tawny owl, breaking forth into its loud hail—hoi-hoi-hoi!

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Suddenly, from the ruined garden above him on the brow of the slope, came the dread hunting cry of his old enemy, the tawny owl.

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Never before had Mrs Monnerie so closely resembled a puffed-out tawny owl.

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The Tawny Owl has a large head, and is about fourteen inches in height.

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Rarest of all, we may sometimes stumble across the home of the Tawny Owl.

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