great horned owl

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   brown North American horned owl

   SynonymsBubo virginianus

   Broaderhorned owl

Questions about great horned owl

What does great horned owl mean?

great horned owl means "brown North American horned owl".

What is another word for great horned owl?

Close synonyms include Bubo virginianus. 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 great horned owl a common word?

great horned 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.