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   { Cucullate , Cucullated , } a. [LL. cullatus, fr. L.  cucullus a cap, hood. See Cowl a hood.]
   Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
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   (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.
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