hoot owl

1. 1.

   any owl that hoots as distinct from screeching

   Broaderowl

Questions about hoot owl

What does hoot owl mean?

hoot owl means "any owl that hoots as distinct from screeching".

Is hoot owl a common word?

hoot owl is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.