nape-crest
English
Noun
nape-crest (plural nape-crests)
- (obsolete) An African bird related to the plantain eaters, of an obsolete genus listed as either Schizorhis (apparently an error for Schizorbis) or Chizaeris, and probably equivalent to Corythaixoides.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nape-crest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Synonyms
- go-away bird
See also
- lourie
- musophagid
- turaco
Anagrams
- preenacts