saw-whetowl

saw-whetowl
saw-whet owl (sôʹhwĕt', -wĕt') n.
A small brown and white owl (Aegolius acadicus) of North America, having no ear tufts.
  [From the resemblance of its call to the sound made in sharpening a saw.]

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Universalium. 2010.

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