3. Having the shape or resemblance of a
hood; or wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in shape of a conical roll of paper; as a
cucullate leaf.
2. Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue
violet.
3. Having the
prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of
hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects.
4. Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.