barred owl

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   large owl of eastern North America having its breast and abdomen streaked with brown

   SynonymsStrix varia

   Broaderowl

   Part ofStrix

Questions about barred owl

What does barred owl mean?

barred owl means "large owl of eastern North America having its breast and abdomen streaked with brown".

What is another word for barred owl?

Close synonyms include Strix varia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barred owl a common word?

barred owl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.