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Definition of Crested

1. Adjective. Bearing an heraldic device.

2. Adjective. (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination. "Tufted loosestrife"

3. Adjective. (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume.

Definition of Crested

1. a. Having a crest.

Definition of Crested

1. Adjective. Having a crest, or ornamental tuft (on an animal) or plume (on a helmet). ¹

2. Verb. (past of crest) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crested

1. crest [v] - See also: crest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crested

crest crest cloud crest clouds crest of alveolar ridge crest of cochlear opening crest of fenestrae cochleae crest of greater tubercle crest of head of rib crest of lesser tubercle crest of neck of rib

crest of palatine bone crest of petrous part of temporal bone crest of scapular spine cresta crestal crested (current term) crested cariama crested coral root crested lark crested larks

crested myna crested penguin crested penguins crested screamer crested screamers crested swift crested tit

Literary usage of Crested

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Seeds crested. * * Corolla with but one petal spurred at base, ... Stigma 2-crested and sometimes 2-horned. Filaments slightly united into two sets. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"On the Roman Imperial and crested Eagles. By JOHN HOGG, HA, FES, LS, £c. The author, in giving an account of the Roman Imperial Eagle and several crested or ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"LAST spring a pair of noisy great crested flycatchers abandoned their usual ... It will be interesting to learn if the great crested flycatcher has also ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"crested ; black ; quills obscurely banded with brownish ; length eight ... crested entirely black; outer edge of the scapulars and tips of the tail white. ..."

5. Handbook of hydraulics for the solution of hydraulic problems by Horace Williams King (1918)
"Weirs with sloping upstream faces reduce the crest contraction, broad-crested weirs cause adherence of the nappe to the crest, aprons cause permanent ..."

6. River Discharge: Prepared for the Use of Engineers and Students by John Clayton Hoyt, Nathan Clifford Grover (1916)
"Coefficients for several types of broad-crested weirs have been determined by Bazin, in France, and under the direction of Prof. Gardner S. Williams at the ..."

7. The Book of Grasses: An Illustrated Guide to the Common Grasses, and the by Mary Francis Baker (1912)
"The English name of Cock's-foot Grass is derived from a fancied resemblance between the branching panicle and a bird's foot. m crested Dog's-tail Cynosurus ..."

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