hooded

1. Covered with a hood.

2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.

3. Hood-shaped; especially.

<botany> Rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.

4. <zoology> Having the head conspicuously different in colour from the rest of the plumage; said of birds. Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake. Hooded crow, a European crow; called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow. Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull. Hooded merganser. See Merganser. Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap. Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser. Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).

Source: Websters Dictionary

(01 Mar 1998)


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