Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Botany Having a pileus.
- adj. Having a crest covering the pileum. Used of a bird.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as pileate.
- In ornithology, crested; having the feathers of the pileum elongated and conspicuous: as, the pileated woodpecker.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Latin pīleātus, wearing a pileus, from pīleus, felt cap. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But opponents of the road insist that the planned extension will bring even more traffic into the area, as well as destroy the parkland habitat of wild creatures bellybuttons such as pileated woodpeckers and red-shouldered hawks.”
“There are pileated woodpeckers in some woods I hunt.”
“One call sounded like something from a rain forest soundtrack - was surprised to see it come from a pileated woodpecker.”
How many folks out there just enjoy watching deer? My wife and I saw around 25 Saturday and Sunday.
“After watching that video I'm glad woodpeckers (except for those giant pileated woodpeckers and the maybe-present-maybe-extinct ivory-billed) are relatively wee little birds.”
“Can't imagine what heron-sized woodpeckers were like, but the call and wing beat of a pileated woodpecker sure sound prehistoric.”
“Mrs. Knap enjoyed birdwatching around her home and was especially fond of seeing cardinals in the snow and pileated woodpeckers.”
“Among the glaring omissions was the pileated woodpecker, a large, handsome red-crested bird whose loud calls resound through our woods.”
“We heard the call of the pileated woodpecker rattling through the trees, as the blue herons took flight to head down stream and fish the best water first.”
“High above, a pileated woodpecker taps on the bark.”
“Get yourself a goose or pileated woodpecker or hawk call, that usually works pretty well.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pileated’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
the whole ball of..., wax poetic, wax, beeswax, ambergris, cedar waxwing, sealing wax, earwax, paraffin, bougie, epicuticular wax, waxing gibbous moon and 192 more...
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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tonka's Words
congee, tritone, flageolet, parritch, muckle, putresce, darnel, loll, pistil, boon, dagnab, vouchsafe and 12 more...
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librarygrrrl's Words
moist, chicken, boing, beast, lovey, woof, penguin, present, gift, wrap, tree, lights and 27 more...
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Drawer
Consider it a part of the desk.
conflagration, haberdashery, aubergine, scrimshaw, paradiddle, whirligig, narthex, pileated, amorphous, embargo, octopodes, octopuses and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pileated.
knitandpurl "The pileated drummer's wawk—it was unignorable
that that was my song, the drummer's low wawk wawk wawk, it was unignorable,
and not the sweet sweet sweet prothonotary's warble."
"Blues Haiku" by John Shoptaw in The New Yorker, March 28, 2011, p 88 Mar 31, 2011
rickidoo Pronunciation:
There is a long standing difference (right/wrong?) way to pronounce this bird's name.
Your pronunciation guide has the word two ways. 1st: the letters suggest the short sound of the "i" as in "hit". 2nd: the audio sound is the way I pronounce it with the long sound of the "i".
To me it's like tomato or potato. Both are right. Depends on where y'all from.
That said, I prefer the way I have known the word from childhood, with the long "i". But I never "correct" any of my students for the way they say the word. I'm just glad they use it. Jun 24, 2009
reesetee Oh yes. The glorious Pileated Woodpecker (after which, unfortunately, the psycopathic Woody Woodpecker character was modeled). They are wonderful birds. Except Woody. Nov 14, 2007
skipvia As in the woodpecker that used to live in the woods behind my house in North Carolina. Wonderous sight indeed. Nov 14, 2007
reesetee Crested. Nov 13, 2007