Definition of crested
: having a crest
- a crested bird
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Irresistible Scent That summer, Douglas captured dozens of crested auklets on the Shumagin Islands and inserted them, one by one, into a specialized chamber to quantify their scent.
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In 2011, a crested macaque used an unattended camera at a reserve in Indonesia to take pictures of himself.
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The monkey, a crested macaque named Naruto, snapped the photos in 2011 with an unattended camera.
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The thumb-size short-crested coquette is found only in the forest edge along a roughly 15-mile stretch of road in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain in southern Mexico.
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For many years, Anthony claimed Bob Ross, a blind white-crested Polish show rooster, could tell fortunes.
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But the tiniest of these hummers was the one that elicited the most excitement: a Festive coquette, an extremely rare green-crested bird with a white rump patch, only three inches long.
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Also spotted was a crested caracara, a bird which is described as a tropical version of a vulture.
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The monkey, a crested macaque named Naruto, took the selfie in 2011.
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First Known Use of crested
14th century
CRESTED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of crested for English Language Learners
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: having a decorative bunch of feathers or hair : having a crest
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