Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capped; specifically, in botany, having a pileus or cap, as certain fungi. See Aguricus.
  • Having the form of a cap or cover for the head. See cut under Crypturus.

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

  • adjective Having the form of a cap for the head.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) a large American woodpecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.

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  • adjective pileated

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