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What does "flamulated" mean?

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N. A. Parsons

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Jan 11, 1989, 3:20:37 PM1/11/89
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I may be misspelling this word, but does anyone know what "falmulated" (as
in "flamulated owl") means? It doesn't seem to be in my dictionary and
none of the books I have mentions it.

Thanks!
Nancy Parsons
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N. A. Parsons

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Jan 11, 1989, 3:23:48 PM1/11/89
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Well, it wasn't really misspelled, just mistyped. "Flamulated"; not
"falmulated."

Nancy Parsons

Steve Hansen

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Jan 12, 1989, 11:19:44 AM1/12/89
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from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged, 1979:

flammulated: having a red tinge; ruddy: said of the plumage of birds

John Oswalt

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Jan 12, 1989, 8:28:24 PM1/12/89
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I found the word (it's spelled "flammulated") in the OED supplement. It
comes from the latin flammula, meaning flame, and means "Of a reddish
color, ruddy." The Flammulated Owl, in it's red phase, has some reddish
flecks on it.
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John Oswalt (..!sun!megatest!jao)

Suzanne Thebaut

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Jan 13, 1989, 2:21:43 PM1/13/89
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In article <4...@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> han...@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Steve Hansen) writes:
>from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged, 1979:
>
> flammulated: having a red tinge; ruddy: said of the plumage of birds

While we are (sort of) on the subject:

What color is 'rufous' (sp?)..???

Is it brown, reddish brown, what?

Thanks.

--Suzanne.

Greg Pasquariello X1190

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Jan 16, 1989, 9:38:00 AM1/16/89
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In article <12...@infinet.UUCP> the...@infinet.UUCP (Suzanne Thebaut) writes:
-In article <4...@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> han...@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Steve Hansen) writes:
->from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged, 1979:
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-> flammulated: having a red tinge; ruddy: said of the plumage of birds
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-While we are (sort of) on the subject:
-
-What color is 'rufous' (sp?)..???
-
-Is it brown, reddish brown, what?
-
-Thanks.
-
---Suzanne.


Rufous is a reddish brown, like the sides of a rufous-sided towhee. Rufous
is also the "pet" name of my wife Ruth :-).

By the way, rufous is also the color of the streaking on the two saw-whet
owls my friend and I found at Jamaica Bay this weekend. One was perched
only four feet away, at eye level, and looked like a small gnome.

Greg
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