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单词 cue-owl
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cue-owln.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcue-owl.
A name applied to the Scops-owl ( Scops giu), common on the shores of the Mediterranean, and a summer visitant to Britain. [Howard Saunders Manual Brit. Birds (1888) 298 says ‘To my ear its cry is a clear metallic ringing ki-ou—whence the Italian names chiù, ciù.’]
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1855 R. Browning Andrea del Sarto The Cue-owls speak the name we call them by.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh viii. 324 The cue-owls from the cypresses Of the Poggio called.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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