wood owl

noun

another name for tawny owl

Words nearby wood owl

wood louse, wood meadow grass, wood mouse, wood nymph, wood opal, wood owl, wood pewee, wood pigeon, wood pitch, wood preservative, wood pulp

Example sentences 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