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pileated, a.|ˈpaɪlɪeɪtɪd|
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. Nat. Hist. = prec.; spec. applied to certain Echini or sea-urchins; also, to certain birds having the feathers of the pileum very conspicuous, as the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) of N. America, the male of which has a scarlet pileum.
a1728Woodward Fossils ii. (1729) 70 A pileated Echinus, taken up, with different Shells of several kinds. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 146, I have seen some Specimens of the common pileated and galeated Echinites. 1782Latham Gen. Synop. Birds I. 554 Pileated Woodpecker. 1884J. Burroughs in Century Mag. Dec. 222/2 The log-cock, or pileated woodpecker..I have never heard drum. 1928G. M. Sutton Introd. Birds Pennsylvania 81 The call of the Pileated is a high, irregular cackle. Ibid., The food of the Pileated Woodpecker is chiefly grubs. 1956G. Durrell Drunken Forest ix. 169 Pileated jays have long, magpie-like tails of black and white... The feathers on the forehead were black, short, and plushy, and stuck up straight. 1969R. Lowell Notebk. 1967–68 57 A large pileated bird flies up. 1971W. Hillen Blackwater River ix. 80 A pileated woodpecker gave his jungle-like call and flashed his scarlet crest through the trees.
2. Wearing the pileus (see pileus 1).
1856W. H. Smyth Catal. Coins Dk. Northumbld. 233 Two pileated but otherwise naked men standing with spears. |