Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a red crest: as, the red-crested duck or pochard, Fuligula rufina.

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Examples

  • The red-crested tree rat was known only through descriptions and the skin from an animal captured in 1898 that is at the New York Museum of Natural History, Salaman says.

    Cute rodent species surfaces after 113 years 2011

  • Among the glaring omissions was the pileated woodpecker, a large, handsome red-crested bird whose loud calls resound through our woods.

    This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The nocturnal animal, the elusive red-crested tree rat, turned up just as Noble and Simon McKeown were heading off to bed, at 9:30 p.m. on May 4.

    Cute rodent species surfaces after 113 years 2011

  • By coincidence, his organization had helped fund a team that spent over a year looking for the red-crested tree rat in Columbia between 2007 and 2008.

    Cute rodent species surfaces after 113 years 2011

  • There's no doubt the animal they photographed was the elusive red-crested tree rat, says Salaman.

    Cute rodent species surfaces after 113 years 2011

  • Flag description: six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, yellow, and red; a white disk is superimposed at the center and depicts a red-crested crane (the national symbol) facing the hoist side

    Uganda 2008

  • Ugandasix equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, yellow, and red; a white disk is superimposed at the center and depicts a red-crested crane (the national symbol) facing the hoist side

    Flag description 2008

  • The Cuckoo Vulture has a cousin, the Radical, which is not to be confused with its more splendidly-plumed relative the red-crested Radical.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • He looked down at the red-crested eagle, already trying to decide how to pose it for what would, for all sorts of reasons, undoubtedly prove the last volume of Birds and Viviparous Quadrupeds of Northern Terranova and Atlantis.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • He shaped the red-crested eagle with wings pulled back and up to brake its flight, talons splayed wide, and beak agape as if it were about to descend on a great honker's back.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

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