'Horned owl' definitions:
Definition of 'horned owl'
From: WordNet
noun
Large owls having prominent ear tufts
Definition of 'Horned owl'
From: GCIDE
- Horned \Horned\, a. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. [1913 Webster]
- The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Horned bee (Zool.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head.
- Horned dace (Zool.), an American cyprinoid fish ({Semotilus corporialis}) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub.
- Horned frog (Zool.), a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.
- Horned grebe (Zool.), a species of grebe ({Colymbus auritus}), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.
- Horned horse (Zool.), the gnu.
- Horned lark (Zool.), the shore lark.
- Horned lizard (Zool.), the horned toad.
- Horned owl (Zool.), a large North American owl ({Bubo Virginianus}), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared.
- Horned poppy. (Bot.) See Horn poppy, under Horn.
- Horned pout (Zool.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout.
- Horned rattler (Zool.), a species of rattlesnake ({Crotalus cerastes}), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder.
- Horned ray (Zool.), the sea devil.
- Horned screamer (Zool.), the kamichi.
- Horned snake (Zool.), the cerastes.
- Horned toad (Zool.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard.
- Horned viper. (Zool.) See Cerastes. [1913 Webster]