strix nebulosa

1. 1.

   large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia

   Synonymsgreat grey owlgreat gray owl

   Broaderowl

   Part ofStrix

Questions about strix nebulosa

What does strix nebulosa mean?

strix nebulosa means "large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia".

What is another word for strix nebulosa?

Close synonyms include great grey owl, great gray owl. 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 strix nebulosa a common word?

strix nebulosa 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.