burrowing owl

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English

Noun

burrowing owl (plural burrowing owls)

  1. A small owl of the western part of North America (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for burrowing owl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)