Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'covert':
Thick underbrush or woodland affording cover for game.
Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown.
Covered or covered over; sheltered.
One of the small feathers covering the bases of the longer feathers of a bird's wings or tail.
A covering or cover.
Being married and therefore protected by one's husband.
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A flock of coots.
A covered place or shelter; hiding place.
Synonyms of word 'covert' :
Antonym of word 'covert' :
open
overt
Usage of the word 'covert' in Sentences :
coverted title of Ride Inn, Ride Off Champion 2006.
As it flew away from me it showed white undertail coverts and belly.
Also note the green gloss to the wing and brown lesser coverts indicative of a first winter bird.
overt surveillance to regain his title.
he Hawaiian Coot is a dark gray bird which from a distance looks black and has white undertail coverts. covert Ops.
What parents want is community schools, with open access and not covert selection.
covert operative 's identity is a violation of federal law.
The white tips to the greater primary coverts are slightly more prominent.
The black on the face extends to below the eye and covers the ear coverts and the lores.
Usage of the word 'covert' in popular media :
Washington Post —
“the landscape is one of rolling hills, pasture, small streams, woods and numerous fox
coverts. ....
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Wall Street Journal —
“ in the sunlight you could make out the rufous body and underwing
coverts.....
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