barred owl

barred owl (plural barred owls)

1. A large American owl (Strix varia) with dark brown transverse bars on the breast.
   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 546:

     Two barred owls, lugubrious and beautiful, call across a great distance.

• eight-hooter, hoot owl, rain owl, wood owl

• striped owl