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noun

Egret n.

(Zoöl.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea egretta syn. Herodias egretta); the great egret (Ardea alba); the little egret (Ardea garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (Ardea candidissima). "A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage."

A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

(Bot.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.

(Zoöl.) A kind of ape.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Egret" Quotes from Famous Books

... more comment than she, and of a different kind. His rose-pink pugree, with the egret and the diamond brooch to hold the egret in its place—his jeweled sabre—his swaggering, almost ruffianly air—were no more meant to escape attention than his charger that clattered and kicked among the crowd, or his following, who cleared a way for him with the butt ends ...

— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy

... have feared. But a little while ago, who of us could have imagined that in our day, the Government of the United States would listen to the cries of little birds, starving on their nests in the swamps of Florida, and prohibit the importation of the egret plumes? How much of hopefulness for the final triumph of th eprinciples of humaneness lies in the passage of such ...

— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell

Words linked to "Egret" : cattle egret, snowy heron, Egretta garzetta, Egretta albus, little egret, American egret, Egretta thula, great white heron, Casmerodius albus, heron