HOODED

Hood″ed, a. 1. 1. Covered with a hood.
2. 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
3. 3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
4. 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).