hooded definition

  • adjective:
    • Covered with or having a hood.
    • formed like a hood, cowl, or comparable covering.
    • Zoology Having color or a crest suggesting a hood.
    • Zoology Having elastic epidermis within neck that, whenever distended, resembles a hood, as that of the cobra.
    • wearing a hood
    • covered with a hood
    • formed like a hood
    • having a crest or similar elastic epidermis inside neck location
    • Covered with a hood.
    • Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
    • Hood-shaped
    • obtaining the mind conspicuously different in color through the remaining portion of the plumage; -- said of birds.
    • Having a hoodlike crest or importance regarding head or throat

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  • verb:
    • Easy past tense and previous participle of hood.
  • others:
    • sporting, or covered or furnished with, a hood.
    • Specifically, in zoology, having on your head any formation of parts or arrangement of colors like or likened to a hood, as with mammals, birds, etc.; cucullate; capistrate.
    • In botany, cucullate; getting the apex or edges curved up or curved over to be able to resemble the point of a slipper or a hood, whilst the spathe of the Indian turnip and/or lip of Cypripedium and Calypso. See cut-under Cypripedium.

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