crested tit
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noun
a small European songbird, Parus cristatus, that has a greyish-brown plumage with a prominent speckled black-and-white crest: family Paridae (tits)
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Cressy, crest, cresta run, crest cloud, crested dog's-tail, crested tit, crested wheatgrass, crestfallen, cresting, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak
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How to use crested tit in a sentence
Seven; but the crested tit is very uncommon, and the bearded tit does not occur in Shropshire.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children|W. HoughtonThe titmouse tribe are abundant; but we never see the rarer species, the bearded or the crested tit.
The Forest of Dean|H. G. Nicholls