Cucullate

What do we mean by cucullate?

Having the shape of a cowl or hood; hooded. adjective

Hooded; cowled; covered as with a hood.

In botany, having the shape or semblance of a hood; wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in the shape of a cornet of paper; like or likened to a hood: as, a cucullate leaf or nectary. In mosses it is specifically applied to a conical calyptra cleft at one side.

In zoology, hooded; having the head shaped, marked, or colored as if hooded or cowled: specifically applied, in entomology, to the prothorax of an insect when it is elevated or otherwise shaped into a kind of hood or cowl for the head.

Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. adjective

Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. adjective

Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. adjective

Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles. adjective

Cucullated adjective

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Words that are spelled similarly to cucullate:
cucullate, cucullata, cumulate, cupulate, cucullated, cucullatus, lucullite, cuculla.

Adjectives that are often used to describe cucullate:
calyptrae, long.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cucullate:
staminode, apex, leaves, calyptra.

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