Meanings of crest of feathers in английском

And he hath a crest of feathers upon his head greater than the peacock hath.

A helmet with a crest of feathers.

This bird looks like Jimmy Durante except for a crest of feathers with somewhat obscures its beak.

There is a plain and curious correlation between a crest of feathers and the imperfectly ossified condition of the skull.

He loaded his gun and fired, bringing down a large black-and-white bird with a scarlet crest of feathers on its head.

Lovely birds with their little crest of feathers, their plumage mostly black and white, but the black having a green sheen.

Sometimes through the openings a bared painted limb, a crest of feathers, or a strip of gaudy blanket was visible, but nothing more.

A large crest of feathers, as Mr. Tegetmeier has remarked, seems always accompanied by a great diminution or almost entire absence of the comb.

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.

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.