| a. | 1. | Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. |
| 2. | (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. | |
| 3. | (Zool.) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. |
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