Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the shape of a cowl or hood; hooded.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hooded; cowled; covered as with a hood.
  • In botany, having the shape or semblance of a hood; wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in the shape of a cornet of paper; like or likened to a hood: as, a cucullate leaf or nectary. In mosses it is specifically applied to a conical calyptra cleft at one side.
  • In zoology, hooded; having the head shaped, marked, or colored as if hooded or cowled: specifically applied, in entomology, to the prothorax of an insect when it is elevated or otherwise shaped into a kind of hood or cowl for the head.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
  • adjective (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
  • adjective Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.
  • adjective Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective cucullated

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Medieval Latin cucullātus, from Latin cucullus, hood.]

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    March 12, 2010