单词 | short-eared owl |
释义 | short-eared owl in British English (ˌʃɔːtˈɪəd aʊl) noun a medium-sized owl; Asio flammeus short-eared owl in American English (ˈʃɔrtˌɪərd) noun a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head Also called: prairie owl Word origin [1805–15, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1805–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Indo-European, alpaca, diminishing returns, one-sided, polarizationExamples of 'short-eared owl' in a sentence |
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