Hooded
Hood"ed
, a. 1. Covered with a hood.[1913 Webster]
2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
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3. Hood-shaped; esp.
(Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
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4.
(Zol.) (a) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. (b) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the
hooded seal; a
hooded snake.
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Hooded crow, a European crow
(Corvus cornix); -- 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).
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