Crested

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a crest: a crested black macaque.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a crest, or ornamental tuft (on an animal) or plume (on a helmet).
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of crest.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a crest.
  • adj. Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head.
  • adj. Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wearing or having a crest; adorned with a crest or plume: as, a crested helmet.
  • In heraldry, wearing a comb, as a cock, or a natural crest of feathers, as any bird having one.
  • In anatomy and zoology, cristate; having a central longitudinal elevation: said especially of the prothorax of an insect.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume
  • adj. bearing an heraldic device
  • adj. (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination
  • Equivalent
    adorned    decorated   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    muffed    tufted    copplecrowned   
    Verb Stem
    crest   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    arrested    breasted    chested    congested    contested    infested    ingested    invested    nested    protested   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    horned    flat-topped    domed    conical    scaly    snowy    jewelled    snow-capped    shaggy    long-tailed