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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the pair of tufts of feathers, or egrets, also called ears and horns, on the head in sundry owls, as species of Bubo, Scops, Otus, or Asio; a feather-horn. Also (rarely) called corniplume. See cuts under Buboninæ and Otus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin pluma "feather" + cornu "horn". (Wiktionary)

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  1. corniplume
  1. ear
  1. egret
  1. eremophila
  1. horn

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  • she A tuft or crest of feathers on top of a bird's head; esp. either of the paired ear tufts typical of many owls. Aug 8, 2008

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