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Definition of Cucullate
1. a. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
Definition of Cucullate
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to having a hood; shaped like a hood ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cucullate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cucullate
1. Hooded, hood-shaped. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cucullate
Literary usage of Cucullate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"cucullate. [L. cucullus, a hood.} (Bot.} Hooded, rolled inwards, so as to conceal
anything within ; eg flower of monkshood. Cucurbit. ..."
2. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Its lip, too, is distinctly cucullate, after the manner of a Laelia." It had been
given to Dr. Lindley by Mr. blinds, among plants collected near Hong Kong. ..."
3. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... rounded ; vexillum rounded-oval, cucullate, keeled behind ; keel oblong, blunt,
the petals disunited below. Stamens 10, monadelphous. ..."
4. Botany of the Northern and Middle States: Or, A Description of the Plants by Lewis Caleb Beck (1833)
"... cucullate, purple, spotted with green and yellow. Spadix peduncled.—Whole
plant very fetid. Medicinal. Big. Mcd. Hot. ii. 4i. Skunk Cabbage. ..."
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