noun
large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia
• Syn: ↑great grey owl, ↑Strix nebulosa
• Hypernyms: ↑owl, ↑bird of Minerva, ↑bird of night, ↑hooter
• Member Holonyms: ↑Strix, ↑genus Strix
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noun : a large round-headed owl (Strix nebulosa) having very full fluffy plumage that is gray mottled and barred with darker gray and white and being nearly circumpolar in northern forests
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a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
[1835-45, Amer.]
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great gray owl,
a very large, grayish-brown owl of northern North America, measuring 30 inches in length.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.