strix

Some folks at strix. org.uk responded by creating a "Shocked Robin" cover generator.

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Another kind of screech owl (strix) has its name from its strident (stridet) call.

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Romans called the owl strix pl. striges, the same word that meant "witch."

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Another kind of screech owl (strix) has its name from its strident (stridet) call.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Bombyx and hélix are a little special for poetry (the latter meant only the exterior contour of the ear), and strix was not to be found in dictionaries current during Mallarmé's lifetime.

Rhymes with 'IX' Comenetz, Michael 1999

But the Juillard Dictionnaire Inverse de la Langue Française lists twenty rhymes, among them bombyx, hélix, prolixe, and strix; and we may add the great name of Vercingétorix.

Rhymes with 'IX' Comenetz, Michael 1999

The ‘strix’ is supposed to have been the screech owl, and was a favorite bird with the enchanters, who were supposed to have the power of assuming that form.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

Of moths, too, there are great numbers, -- among them, the Erebus strix, the largest of its family, sometimes measuring nearly a foot in expanse of wing.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Among the birds that are found here, are the eagle, various species, (falco); owl (strix); king bird

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

semper, et tectis strix uiolenta canat: ipsa fame stimulante furens herbasque sepulcris

A Shattered Dream of Love Tibullus 1912