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Cucullate \Cu"cul*late\ (k?"k?l-l?t or k?-k?l"l?t), Cucullated
\Cu"cul*la`ted\ (-l?`t?d or -l?-t?d), a. [LL. cullatus, fr. L.
cucullus a cap, hood. See {Cowl} a hood.]
1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. --Sir T. Browne.
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2. (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as
the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
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3. (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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