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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two small brown-and-white owls, Aegolius acadicus of North America or A. ridgwayi of Central America, having no ear tufts.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the resemblance of the owls' calls to the sound made in sharpening a saw .]
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