crested

[US]/'krestɪd/
[UK]/'krɛstɪd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. adorned with a crest, having tufts, having a coat of arms.

Phrases & Collocations

crested bird

crested wave

crested mountain

Example Sentences

the crested drake mandarin duck.

The stately mansion crested the hill.

a crested black macaque.

his helmet was crested with a fan of spikes.

The swollen river crested at 9P.M.

As wave crested the sailor grab onto the handspike to maintain balance.

Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forbear,

A double-crested cormorant surfaces after catching an alewife near the outlet of Damariscotta Lake, Friday, May 15, in Newcastle, Maine.

Other birds seen: Black-necked Starling, Black Drongo (or Hair-crested Drongo).

brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips.

Achene straight, with crested or U-shaped appendix at apex or along dorsiventral edges, usually verrucose, invested by shorter persistent perianth.

A large, crested finch(Pyrrhuloxia sinuata) of Mexico and the southwest United States, having gray and red plumage and a short, thick bill.

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