wereowl

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noun

A shapeshifter who can assume the form of an owl.

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Meanings

nounwereowl (plural wereowls)

plural wereowls

  1. fictionA shapeshifter who can assume the form of an owl.

    1993, Patricia Kindl, Owl in Love, Graphia (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), →ISBN, page 42. The garden of a wereowl at midnight makes a perilous salad bar.

    1 more example

    There was a wereowl at school who was always complaining that the lights were too bright. Of course, if I'd been a wereowl, I wouldn't have needed to be here.

    2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture, Emily Martha Sorensen

Origin

From were- + owl.

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APA

wereowl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wereowl

MLA

“wereowl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wereowl. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wereowl,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wereowl.

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