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Tawny owl   /tˈɑni aʊl/   Listen
Tawny owl

noun
1.
Reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes.  Synonym: Strix aluco.





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"Tawny owl" Quotes from Famous Books



... seem to hold a curse of gloom. One cannot say why. And this was one of them. And the tawny owl that nobody saw but everybody heard, and the white stoat that everybody saw and nobody heard, and the amorous dog-fox with the cruel bark that everybody saw and heard, did not, taken together or singly, add to the ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars


Words linked to "Tawny owl" :   Strix aluco, owl, Strix, bird of night, hooter, bird of Minerva, genus Strix


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