Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, pervaded with a reddish color; ruddy; reddened: as, the flammulated owl, Scops flammeola.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a reddish color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
flame -coloured
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Examples
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It also contains old growth habitat crucial to the threatened Northern spotted owl and numerous other bird species such as the western bluebird, the western meadowlark, the pileated woodpecker, the flammulated owl, and the pygmy nuthatch.
Proclamation On The Cascade Siskiyou National Monument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000
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The uncommon to rare flammulated owl can raise a pair of short, rather wimpy “horns, †but the great horned, screech and long
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The uncommon to rare flammulated owl can raise a pair of short, rather wimpy “horns, †but the great horned, screech and long
reesetee commented on the word flammulated
Reddish-colored.
November 14, 2007
mollusque commented on the word flammulated
It is defined that way (reddish-colored) in OED2, but that doesn't agree with its normal use in systematic biology, which refers to the shape, not the color, of markings on an animal or plant. MW3 says "having flame-shaped markings".
November 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the word flammulated
Yes, there are two different definitions, mollusque.
November 14, 2007
qms commented on the word flammulated
As rufescent as though immolated,
Flamboyance, alas, simulated.
The bird's not aflame;
He plays at a game
So twitchers are flim-flammulated.
July 3, 2015