What does screech owl mean?

screech owl means "any owl that has a screeching cry". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for screech owl?

Close synonyms include Otus asio. 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 screech owl a common word?

screech 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.

screech owl — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

noun

2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
any owl that has a screeching cry
Broaderowl
2.
small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle
SynonymsOtus asio
Broaderowl
Part ofOtus

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