cucullate

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adj. Botany

Having the shape of a cowl or hood; hooded: cucullate sepals.

[Medieval Latin cuculltus, from Latin cucullus, hood.]

cucul·lately adv.

cucullate [ˈkjuːkəˌleɪt -lɪt]

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) shaped like a hood or having a hoodlike part cucullate sepals

[from Late Latin cucullātus, from Latin cucullus hood, cap]

cucullately adv

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No references found			Anchored off the East coast of Africa, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is famous for a ghost C* the ghost of the dodo, the flightless bird, Raphus Cucullates, which was totally wiped out by hunters and rats during the mid to late-17th century. Dead as a dodo? -- Not at all by Travel & Tourism News Floral bracts broadly elliptic to ovate, 8-14 x 6-8 mm, from about equaling to much shorter than the sepals, thin coriaceous, cucullate, carinate, nerved, green to reddish tipped yellow. A new Aechmea from eastern Ecuador by Luther, Harry E.; Norton, Karen F. / Journal of the Bromeliad Society Pachyanthus monopleurus has some distinctive features such as the presence of peltate scales, absence of acrodromous venation and globose and cucullate external calyx lobes. Preliminary molecular phylogenetic studies in Pachyanthus (Miconieae, ... by Becquer-Granados, Eldis R.; Neubig, Kurt M.; Judd, Walter S.; Michelangeli, Fabian A.; Abbott, J. Ri / The Botanical Review			cuckoldry cuckoo cuckoo bee cuckoo bread cuckoo clock Cuckoo dove Cuckoo falcon Cuckoo fish cuckoo flower Cuckoo maid cuckoo mate Cuckoo ray cuckoo shrike cuckoo spit cuckoo's nest cuckoo-bumblebee Cuckoobud cuckooflower cuckoopint Cucquean Cucujo Cuculidae cuculiform cuculiform bird Cuculiformes cucullate Cucullus Cuculoid Cuculus Cuculus canorus cucumber Cucumber beetle. cucumber mosaic cucumber tree cucumber vine cucumber-shaped Cucumiform Cucumis Cucumis melo Cucumis melo cantalupensis Cucumis melo inodorus Cucumis melo reticulatus Cucumis sativus cucurbit Cucurbita Cucurbita argyrosperma Cucurbita foetidissima Cucurbita maxima Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis Cucurbita mixta Cucurbita moschata			CUCrC CUCREJ CUCRH CUCRIT CUCS CUCSA CUCSC CUCSH CUCSSA CUCST CUCTDS Cucubalus Cucubit Cucubita Cucubita Cucubitaceae Cucubitaceae CUCUG Cucujidae Cucujo Cucujoidea Cuculidae Cuculidae Cuculiform Cuculiform cuculiform bird Cuculiformes Cuculiformes Cuculla Cuculla cucullate cucullately Cucullus Cucullus Cuculoid Cuculus Cuculus canorus Cuculus clamosus Cucumariidae cucumber cucumber cucumber cucumber cucumber Cucumber beetle Cucumber beetle. Cucumber beetles Cucumber Genome Initiative Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus Coat Protein Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus Strain SH Cucumber Heel Cucumber Leaf Spot Virus cucumber mildew cucumber mosaic cucumber mosaic Cucumber mosaic virus Cucumber mosaic virus cucumber mosaic virus group Cucumber Mosaic Virus Isolated from Catharanthus Roseus Cucumber Pale Fruit Viroid

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