plumicorn

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  1. 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.

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  1. from Latin pluma, a feather, + cornu, a horn.
 

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