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Cedar Waxwing

The Cedar waxwing is easily distinguished by its prominent crest, black mask
extending from above the beak to beyond the eyes, and the characteristic red
scales on its secondary flight feathers. It is called waxwing because the
red scales look like sealing wax. Waxwings eat insects, fruits, and berries
and can often be seen passing berries or insects back and forth to each
other while they sit eating side by side.

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crest

PRONUNCIATION:   krst
NOUN: 1a. A usually ornamental tuft, ridge, or similar projection on the
head of a bird or other animal. b. An elevated, irregularly toothed ridge on
the stigmas of certain flowers. c. A ridge or an appendage on a plant part,
such as on a leaf or petal. 2a. A plume used as decoration on top of a
helmet. b. A helmet. 3a. Heraldry A device placed above the shield on a coat
of arms. b. A representation of such a device. 4a. The top, as of a hill or
wave. b. The highest or culminating point; the peak: the crest of a flood;
at the crest of her career. 5. The ridge on a roof.
VERB: Inflected forms: crest·ed, crest·ing, crests

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To decorate or furnish with a crest. 2. To reach the
crest of: crested the ridge.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To form into a crest or crests: waves cresting over
the seawall. 2. To reach a crest: The swollen river crested at 9 p.m.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English creste, from Old French, from Latin crista. See
sker-2 in Appendix I.

ENTRY: sker-2
DEFINITION: Also ker-. To turn, bend. Presumed base of a number of distantly
related derivatives.
Derivatives include shrink, ranch, rink, curve, crepe, circle, search, and
crown.
1. Extended form *(s)kreg- in nasalized form *(s)kre-n-g-. a. shrink, from
Old English scrincan, to wither, shrivel up, from Germanic *skrink-; b.
variant *kre-n-g-. (i) ruck2, from Old Norse hrukka, a crease, fold; (ii)
flounce1, from Old French fronce, pleat, from Frankish *hrunkjan, to
wrinkle. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic *hrunk-. 2. Extended form
*(s)kregh- in nasalized form *skre-n-gh-. a. ring1, from Old English hring,
a ring; b. ranch, range, rank1, rink; arrange, derange, from Old French
renc, reng, line, row; c. ringhals, from Middle Dutch rinc (combining form
ring-), a ring. a-c all from Germanic *hringaz, something curved, circle. 3.
Extended form *kreuk-. a. ridge, from Old English hrycg, spine, ridge; b.
rucksack, from Old High German hrukki, back. Both a and b from Germanic
hrugjaz. 4. Suffixed variant form *kur-wo-. curb, curvature, curve, curvet,
from Latin curvus, bent, curved. 5. Suffixed extended form *kris-ni-.
crinoline, from Latin crnis (< *crisnis), hair. 6. Suffixed extended form
*kris-t-. crest, crista, cristate, from Latin crista, tuft, crest. 7.
Suffixed extended form *krip-so-. crepe, crisp, crispate, from Latin crispus
(metathesized from *cripsus), curly. 8. Extended expressive form *krss-.
crissum, from Latin crsre, (of women) to wiggle the hips during copulation.
9. Perhaps reduplicated form *ki-kr-o-. circa, circadian, circinate,
Circinus, circle, circum-, circus, cirque, search; cricoid, recherché, from
Greek kirkos, krikos, a ring. 10. Suffixed o-grade form *kor-no-. corona,
crown, koruna, krona1, krona2, krone1, krone2, from Greek kornos, curved.
11. Suffixed variant form *kur-to. kurtosis, from Greek kurtos, convex.
(Pokorny 3. (s)ker- 935.)