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hooded definition

hooded (ho̵od′id)

adjective

  1. having or covered with a hood
  2. shaped like a hood; cucullate
  3. with the eyelids partly closed hooded eyes
  4. Zool.
    1. having the head different in color from the body
    2. having a crest like a hood
    3. capable of expanding the skin at each side of the neck by movements of the ribs: said as of the cobra

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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