Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In ornithology: Having the under tail-coverts conspicuous in color: as, the crissal thrush.
- Of or pertaining to the crissum: as, the crissal region; a crissal feather.
Wiktionary
- adj. Relating to the crissum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the crissum.
- adj. Having highly colored under tail coverts.
Etymologies
- crissum + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The cactus wren and crissal thrasher build in the geographical centres of tree choyas, so protected by 500,000 spines that no hawk or owl can reach them.”
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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