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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various owls with characteristic ear tufts that resemble horns.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An owl of the genus Bubo native to the Americas, among the largest types of owls.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large owls having prominent ear tufts

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  • “PLINY (Caius Plinius Secundus, A.D. 61-before 115) informs us that on one occasion "a horned owl entered the very sanctuary of the Capitol; ... in consequence of which, Rome was purified on the nones of March in that year.”

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  1. owl
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  1. bubo virginianus
  1. great horned owl

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  1. great horned owl
  2. bubo virginianus
  1. horned owl
  2. eagle owl
  1. hornowl
  2. cat-owl
  1. horned
  2. grand duke
  1. scops owl
  2. horn
  1. ascalaphus
  2. asio
  1. megascops
  2. ear-tuft

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