Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Botany Having a pileus.
- adjective Having a crest covering the pileum. Used of a bird.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pileate . - In ornithology, crested; having the feathers of the pileum elongated and conspicuous: as, the pileated woodpecker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having a
pileus - adjective zoology Having a
crest covering thepileum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"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."
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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.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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Mrs. Knap enjoyed birdwatching around her home and was especially fond of seeing cardinals in the snow and pileated woodpeckers.
Eleanore K. Knap, college employee Post 2011
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Among the glaring omissions was the pileated woodpecker, a large, handsome red-crested bird whose loud calls resound through our woods.
This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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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. 2009
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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. 2009
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There are pileated woodpeckers in some woods I hunt.
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Can't imagine what heron-sized woodpeckers were like, but the call and wing beat of a pileated woodpecker sure sound prehistoric.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
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There are pileated woodpeckers in some woods I hunt.
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Can't imagine what heron-sized woodpeckers were like, but the call and wing beat of a pileated woodpecker sure sound prehistoric.
Woodpecker vs. Snake 2010
reesetee commented on the word pileated
Crested.
November 14, 2007
skipvia commented on the word pileated
As in the woodpecker that used to live in the woods behind my house in North Carolina. Wonderous sight indeed.
November 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pileated
Oh yes. The glorious Pileated Woodpecker (after which, unfortunately, the psycopathic Woody Woodpecker character was modeled). They are wonderful birds. Except Woody.
November 14, 2007
rickidoo commented on the word pileated
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.
June 24, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word pileated
"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
March 31, 2011