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Meaning of scopes | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
[ˈskoː.peːs]

Definitions

a kind of owl

Examples

“nominantur ab Homero scopes, avium genus: neque harum satyricos motus, cum insidientur, plerisque memoratos facile conceperim mente, neque ipsae iam aves noscuntur. quamobrem de confessis disseruisse praestiterit.”

1938 translation by H. Rackham Homer mentions a kind of bird called the scops; many people speak of its comic dancing movements when it is watching for its prey, but I cannot easily grasp these in my mind, nor are the birds themselves now known. Consequently a discussion of admitted facts will be more profitable.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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