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Definition of Hoodlike
1. resembling a hood [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoodlike
Literary usage of Hoodlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1904)
"... immersed with a hoodlike structure above, the aperture of the same shape as
... very crowded and irregularly disposed : the hoodlike structure of the ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1871)
"... tribes by a hoodlike cap of cowrie shells. The villages of these tribes consist
of streets of mud- and wood- built houses, precisely similar in style to ..."
3. Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Francis Marion Crawford (1898)
"... glance from under a veil or hoodlike shawl, for every woman's head is covered,
but of the men only the old lord wears his cap, which he devoutly lifts ..."
4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"H. A domical or hoodlike protection for the top of a stair which is earned through
the platform or flat roof of a tower, or the like. Such STALACTITE. ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1907)
"... 4- segmented'palpus, and both terminal lobes, the lacinia sharply two-pointed,
and the outer hoodlike galea fleshy; labium (plate ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1903)
"... that confirm the original generic separation, though in some forms the collar
may be as hoodlike as in Cucullia and the primaries nearly as lanceolate. ..."
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