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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In ornithology, pervaded with a reddish color; ruddy; reddened: as, the flammulated owl, Scops flammeola.

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  1. adj. flame-coloured

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of a reddish color.

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  • “It also contains old growth habitat crucial to the threatened Northern spotted owl and numerous other bird species such as the western bluebird, the western meadowlark, the pileated woodpecker, the flammulated owl, and the pygmy nuthatch.”

    Proclamation On The Cascade Siskiyou National Monument

  • “The uncommon to rare flammulated owl can raise a pair of short, rather wimpy “horns, †but the great horned, screech and long”

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE

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  • reesetee Yes, there are two different definitions, mollusque. Nov 14, 2007

  • mollusque It is defined that way (reddish-colored) in OED2, but that doesn't agree with its normal use in systematic biology, which refers to the shape, not the color, of markings on an animal or plant. MW3 says "having flame-shaped markings". Nov 14, 2007

  • reesetee Reddish-colored. Nov 13, 2007

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