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hooded
adjective
Etymology: Middle English hoded, hooded, from hod, hood + -ed
1.
a. : covered or furnished with a hood or something resembling a hood
b. : having the awn replaced by a trifurcate hood — used of some cereal grasses
2.
a. : shaped like a hood
b. : rolled in expanded conical form with a reflexed tip : cucullate — used of plant organs
< arums with hooded spathes >
3.
a. : having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the body — used chiefly of birds
b. : having a crest on the head that suggests a hood
< hooded seals >
c. of a cobra : having the skin at each side of the neck capable of expansion by movements of the ribs
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