CRESTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crested mean? 

• CRESTED (adjective)
  The adjective CRESTED has 3 senses:

1. bearing an heraldic device

2. (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination

3. (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume

  Familiarity information: CRESTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRESTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bearing an heraldic device

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Domain category:

heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination

Synonyms:

crested; topknotted; tufted

Context example:

tufted loosestrife

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume

Synonyms:

crested; plumed

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

 Context examples 

The mitochondrial genome showed that C. creightoni is closely related to the two remaining caracara species alive today: the crested caracara and the southern caracara.

(Extinct Caribbean bird yields DNA after 2,500 years in watery grave, National Science Foundation)

White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs; others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He bore no arms save the long and heavy sword which hung at his saddle-bow; but Terlake carried in front of him the high wivern-crested bassinet, Ford the heavy ash spear with swallow-tail pennon, while Alleyne was entrusted with the emblazoned shield.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)