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Firecrest :: Firecrest (n.) A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Wreath :: Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms..

Ridge :: Ridge (n.) The back, or top of the back; a crest..

Timbre :: Timbre (n.) The crest on a coat of arms.

Tricrotism :: Tricrotism (n.) That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

Thumbbird :: Thumbbird (n.) The goldcrest.

Scyllaea :: Scyllaea (n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest..

Moonie :: Moonie (n.) The European goldcrest.

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious..

Rhinolophid :: Rhinolophid (n.) Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat..

Crested :: Crested (a.) Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft..

Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..

Pannikel :: Pannikel (n.) The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest..

Cresting :: Cresting (n.) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

Phainopepla :: Phainopepla (n.) A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher..

Crested :: Crested (a.) Having a crest.

Comb :: Comb (n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

Topknot :: Topknot (n.) A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women..

Hoazin :: Hoazin (n.) A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoologists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

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