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moustachial, a. Nat. Hist.|mʊˈstɑːʃɪəl, -æ-, məs-|
[f. moustache n. + -ial.]
Resembling a moustache.
a1873E. Blyth Catal. Mammals & Birds Burma 57 The red of the breast [of the parrot] is continued past the black moustachial streak and the ear-coverts. 1888Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 652/1 note, A patch of conspicuous colour, generally red, on this part [sc. the base of the lower mandible] is characteristic of very many Woodpeckers, and careless writers often call it ‘mystacial’, or some more barbarously ‘moustachial’. 1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 72 Cheeks..separated from the throat by a distinct moustachial streak of dusky greenish-olive. |