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Webster 1913 Edition


Cucullated

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Cu′cul-late

(k?′k?l-l?t or k?-k?l′l?t)
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Cu′cul-laˊted

(-l?ˊt?d or -l?-t?d)
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Adj.
[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.
(Zool.)
(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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cucullated

CUCULLATE

, CUCULLATED,
Adj.
[L., a hood, a cowl.]
1.
Hooded; cowled; covered as with a hood.
2.
Having the shape or resemblance of a hood; or wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in shape of a conical roll of paper; as a cucullate leaf.

Definition 2024


cucullated

cucullated

English

Adjective

cucullated (comparative more cucullated, superlative most cucullated)

  1. Having a hood or cowl; hooded.
  2. (zoology, botany) Having a hood-like covering or component; hood-shaped.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 429:
      They are differently cucullated or capuched upon the head and back, and in the Cicada the eyes are more prominent
  3. (botany) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.