owls
- 1Plural of owl.
Several owls nested in the hollow trunks along the riverbank.
Farmers welcome owls because they keep the rodent population in check.
Note
A regular plural, made with the ordinary -s and taking plural agreement like any count noun: the owls were hunting. The one form covers every meaning of the singular. It can name people who look wise or serious or keep late hours, owl pigeons, Caligo butterflies with eyespots on their wings, or, less often, politicians who are neither hawkish nor dovish. Context, not spelling, tells them apart.
owls is a form of owl
owl, noun: Any of various mostly nocturnal birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, with forward-facing binocular vision, limited eye movement, and acute hearing. Full entry
- Forms
- owlowls plural
- Spelling
- owl → owls: add -s
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