noun
a genus of European owls
• Syn: ↑genus Asio
• Hypernyms: ↑bird genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Strigidae, ↑family Strigidae
• Member Meronyms: ↑long-eared owl, ↑Asio otus
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ASIO /āˈzi-ō or azˈi-ō/
abbrev
Australian Security Intelligence Organization
Useful english dictionary. 2012.