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From: jao@megatest.UUCP (John Oswalt)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: What does "flamulated" mean?
Message-ID: <1189@clint.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 01:28:24 GMT
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In article <9928@drutx.ATT.COM> nap@drutx.ATT.COM (N. A. Parsons) writes:
>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
>drutx!nap

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)