HOODED MERGANSER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Hooded merganser

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adjective

Hooded adj.

Covered with a hood.

Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.

Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), Rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.

(Zool.)

(a)

Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; said of birds.

(b)

Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.

Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow.

Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull.

Hooded merganser. See Merganser.

Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap.

Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser.

Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc.

Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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