| 单词 | monkey-face owl |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonkey-face owl 4. U.S. regional. The barn owl, Tyto alba. Also monkey-face owl. Cf. monkey-faced owl n. at monkey-faced adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Tytonidae > tyto alba (barn owl) shritch?a1500 scritch owl1510 shritch-owl1538 strich1552 screech owl1567 shriek-owl1567 madge?1576 lich-owl1585 lich-fowl1611 jill-hooter1668 white owl1672 barn owl1674 church owl1678 aluco1753 padge1848 cherubim1864 squinch-owl1880 monkey-facec1940 c1940 LAMSAS Materials in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 645/1 Monkey-face owl—middle-sized. 1955 Amer. Speech 30 180 The barn owl is very generally called monkey-faced owl, a designation often shortened to monkey face. 1961 J. S. Ligon New Mexico Birds 142 The heartshaped facial disc has given rise to the widely used name ‘monkey-face’. < as lemmas |
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