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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of Old World owls, of the family Strigidæ, mostly of the Indian, Indomalayan, and Australian region, having bristly feet and long pointed wings. The Indian N. scutulata, and the Australian N. strenua and N. connivens, are examples.
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