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Meanings of crest of feathers in English
Prominent feature exhibited by several bird and dinosaur species on their heads.
Synonyms
Examples for "crown"
Examples for "crown"
1
Life only in yearning; Death to crown realization; peace only in oblivion.
2
She must do what was necessary to save the crown-andher future.
3
In the meantime here is half a crown; your poetry deserves it.
4
By way of example, previously inaccessible, aromatic crown ethers compounds are synthesized.
5
We expect the crown to remain under pressure for now, they added.
1
Come June there should be no need to change the crest either.
2
The building stood in the moonlight on the crest of the hill.
3
From the radio came Rattus's words, We're just behind the topographical crest.
4
The spray torn from the crest by the wind filled the air.
5
Once more the column undulated over the tawny crest of the hill.
1
Strategies to support tuft cells might be developed for treatment of CD.
2
And I ran to tear away the tuft, when the grass replied:
3
A white tuft of smoke showed against the grey of the sky.
4
But not a tuft of hair or glancing horn hove in sight.
5
You need a haircut, she says lightly, yanking a wayward blond tuft.
1
As he lifted his head from the wall, his hair spiked up from his skull like the feathered crest of a bird.
2
The sun was well up, and its rays played upon a very sea of bronze from which the feathered crests rose and shivered like foam.
1
She found a crown of feathers with a cross inside her pillow.
2
As if I were an Indian chief with a great crown of feathers!
3
A crown of feathers rested upon the head and gold was about the neck.
4
On his head is a little crown of feathers.
5
A red vest he wore, and a swallow-tail, of course, and there was a crown of feathers on his head.
Usage of crest of feathers in English
1
And he hath a crest of feathers upon his head greater than the peacock hath.
2
A helmet with a crest of feathers.
3
This bird looks like Jimmy Durante except for a crest of feathers with somewhat obscures its beak.
4
There is a plain and curious correlation between a crest of feathers and the imperfectly ossified condition of the skull.
5
He loaded his gun and fired, bringing down a large black-and-white bird with a scarlet crest of feathers on its head.
6
Lovely birds with their little crest of feathers, their plumage mostly black and white, but the black having a green sheen.
7
Sometimes through the openings a bared painted limb, a crest of feathers, or a strip of gaudy blanket was visible, but nothing more.
8
A large crest of feathers, as Mr. Tegetmeier has remarked, seems always accompanied by a great diminution or almost entire absence of the comb.
9
In the tasselled Game a few long feathers rise from the back of the comb: in many breeds a crest of feathers replaces the comb.
10
Head with a large, rounded crest of feathers, supported on a hemispherical protuberance of the frontal bones, which includes the anterior part of the brain.