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cucullated |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cucullate \Cu"cul*late\ (k?"k?l-l?t or k?-k?l"l?t), Cucullated \Cu"cul*la`ted\ (-l?`t?d or -l?-t?d), a. [LL. cullatus, fr L. cucullus a cap, hood. See {Cowl} a hood.] 1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. 3. (Zo["o]l.) a Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. b Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.
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