horned owl

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   large owls having prominent ear tufts

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Questions about horned owl

What does horned owl mean?

horned owl means "large owls having prominent ear tufts".

Is horned owl a common word?

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.