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wood owl

noun

another name for tawny owl

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Nearby words

wood louse, wood meadow grass, wood mouse, wood nymph, wood opal, wood owl, wood pewee, wood pigeon, wood pitch, wood preservative, wood pulp
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Examples from the Web for wood owl

  • Sometimes it had been the gobble of a wild turkey that had lured to danger, again a wood-owl had cried strangely in the night.

    The Crossing|Winston Churchill

  • The scops is a small owl with aigrettes or "horns," the wood-owl is a large bird without aigrettes.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar

  • The largest appears nearly the size of the English wood-owl.

    Wanderings in South America|Charles Waterton

  • The wood-owl is common here, and is presumably well able to hold his castle against all aggressors.

    Birds and Man|W. H. Hudson