Fully plumaged young bird. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But yesterday he brought to me an iris-plumaged dove. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
Bird species are numerous and spectacularly plumaged. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Division (Bailey)] Reference
Sidonie, a fitting cage for that capricious, gaudy-plumaged bird. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Notice that the birds are in pairs; no old, full-plumaged among them. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Variably plumaged Icelandic Herring gulls reflect founders not hybrids. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
That brightly plumaged fantasy has an aerial wit and colour all its own. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
They were brighter plumaged than the ones I knew from the Dales, and of different species. From Wordnik.com. [Year of the Unicorn]
Handsome, brightly plumaged, not at the front of the queue when the brains were handed out. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
They looked like ordinary birds, more spectacularly plumaged than some, less active than others. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
But there are millions of brilliantly plumaged birds whose melodies continually ring through heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
Brilliantly-plumaged birds flitted here and there, their colours contrasting with the green foliage. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
It seemed too large to be a snowy-plumaged bird, and he darted swiftly downward that he might see more clearly. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
The accent of his arkinga made him seem even more out of place, very much a black wolf among brightly plumaged birds. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
He turned, to-find himself gazing into the eyes of a second tervardi, this one drably plumaged in black and red-brown. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
Beneath the odorous shade of these magnificent trees fluttered and warbled a little world of brilliantly plumaged birds. From Wordnik.com. [From the Earth to the Moon] Reference
A handsome young serving man sprang to her side, bearing a pale green robe worked in brilliantly plumaged birds-of-delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
Many varieties of brilliantly-plumaged birds flew screaming away at his approach, but they were the only living things he saw. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
The soft-plumaged petrel Pterodroma mollis and white bellied storm petrel Fregetta gralaria populations are globally important. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
On the walls were bits of embroidery framed and covered with glass, picturing bright-plumaged birds and tigers standing in snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
It was a female-plumaged bird, identifiable by profile and a very faint, pale "spur" on the side of the breast. posted by John L. Trapp at. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2002-08-01] Reference
The society in which he found himself flying, like one of a tribe of bright-plumaged birds in a grove full of song, centred around the Queen. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
It was dotted with little islands, on some of which were picturesque groups of palmettos, and on others big trees filled with white-plumaged birds. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
Lions, we discovered nothing living but a variety of beautifully-plumaged birds, which, unused to the intrusion of other bipeds, uttered most discordant screams. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
In contrast to his son's camouflage outfit, his own elaborate clothing made him look like an exotic. silver-crested, blue-plumaged bird perched in the shrubbery. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
The house - more like a Georgian-style mansion - was perched like a magnificently plumaged crow on the crest of a hill, one of many in this emerald-green countryside. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
B蔆HE-DE-MER, family is especially noticeable because it is decorated with colours of which a gaily plumaged bird might be envious, though it has no other claim to comeliness. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
But one day I found this restless bright-plumaged bird flown. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
I gazed upon her as one might gaze on some fluttering, rare-plumaged bird. From Wordnik.com. [Ardath] Reference
As if in rivalry of the wealth of blossoms, bright-plumaged birds darted about like butterflies of unnatural growth. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam] Reference
He liked to think of her as a bright plumaged bird, not as sombre - hued and wearing the habiliments which come only from some grave. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Daylight] Reference
They were large, splendidly plumaged birds, with keen eyes and sharp bills, and at their head was the children's old friend, the policeman. From Wordnik.com. [Policeman Bluejay] Reference
It is said that the traffic in the skins of our brighter plumaged birds, arising from their use by the milliners, reaches to hundreds of thousands annually. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
This oak, through whose branches darted many a gay-plumaged bird of species unknown to Stern, grew up along the overhanging face of Spring Rock, as they christened it. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
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