3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper;
cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
4. (Zoˆl.) (a) Having the head conspicuously different in color from
the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. (b) Having a hoodlike crest
or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also hoody, dun
crow, and royston crow. -- Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit
or gull. -- Hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded seal, a large
North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large,
inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap. -- Hooded
sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser. -- Hooded snake. See
Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. -- Hooded warbler, a small American
warbler (Sylvania mitrata).
Hood"less, a. Having no hood.