2. (a.) Covered with a hood.
3. (a.) Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
4. (a.) Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
5. (a.) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
6. (a.) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.