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Otus

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Noun1.OtusOtus - a genus of Strigidae                
genus Otus
bird genus - a genus of birds
family Strigidae, Strigidae - a family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes
Otus asio, screech owl - small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle
scops owl - any of several small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call


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She bore two sons Otus and Ephialtes, but both were short lived.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
Sclater, informs me that this is the case with the Strix punctatissima and Pyrocephalus nanus; and probably with the Otus Galapagoensis and Zenaida Galapagoensis: so that the number of endemic birds is reduced to twenty-three, or probably to twenty-one.
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Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze.
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