Scops is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 42 anagrams from letters in scops (copss).
before 900; learned borrowing (19th century) of Old English scop; cognate with Old Norse skop mocking, Old High German skof derision
It is easy to distinguish between the two owls, as the scops has aigrettes or "horns," which the spotted owlet lacks.
The scops is a small owl with aigrettes or "horns," the wood-owl is a large bird without aigrettes.
Very different is the cry of the little scops owl (scops giu).
"But she is innocent as that bird in the air," screamed her lover, pointing to a scops owl which was sailing above the cypresses.
The writer ascribes this call to the collared scops owl (scops bakkamoena).
A screech owl (scops zorca) weighing one-third of a pound had 2.35 square feet of wing surface per pound of weight.
Dale, an English author, mentions another example of the utility of the scops.
The owl I know least is a little scops owl, kept alone in the insect-house.
Like the scops, it delights in following persons who pass its retreat, especially at the break of dawn.