Definition of Hoodid
Hood"ed, a. 1.
Covered with a hood.
2. Furnished with a hood or something like a
hood.
3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up
like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian
turnip.
4. (Zoöl.) (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.
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).
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
English
- wearing a hood
- covered with a hood
- shaped like a hood
- (of an animal) having a crest or similar elastic skin in the neck area
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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