owletnoun [ C ]
/ˈaʊ.lət//ˈaʊ.lɪt/a young owl (= a bird with a flat face and large eyes that hunts small animals at night):
When the owls can't find food anymore, their owlets starve.
We saw some newly hatched owlets.
More examples
- An owlet whistled in a tree.
- She tried raising owlets in her bedroom under a heat lamp.
- After fledging, the owlets spend three months with their parents.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal young
- baby
- bugger
- calf
- calves
- chick
- colt
- cub
- fledgling
- foal
- frogspawn
- fry
- gosling
- heifer
- litter
- offspring
- peachick
- piglet
- pup
- puppy
- spawn
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