pileated

[ pahy-lee-ey-tid, pil-ee- ]

adjective

, Ornithology.

1. crested.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pileated¹

First recorded in 1720–30; pileate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker, the largest and wildest of our Northern species, I have never heard drum.

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Only the creepers and the great pileated woodpeckers seemed to inhabit these truly cloistral shades.

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Strangely enough the Pileated's notes resemble those of the Flicker but are louder.

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In both sexes the eye is yellow, and the feathers of the crown pileated to form a crest.

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Each pileated piece of the skeleton has four equal, cruciate, triangular meshes.

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