Strix

See also: strix

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Etymology

From Latin strix, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx, “screecher”). The word was first featured in the lost Ornithologia of Boios and later in Pseudolus of Plautus. Citation: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/257998.

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Strix f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Strigidae.

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