cucullate

[ kyoo-kuh-leyt, kyoo-kuhl-eyt ]

adjective

1. resembling a cowl or hood.

cucullate

/ ˈkjuːkəˌleɪt; -lɪt /

adjective

1. shaped like a hood or having a hoodlike part

   cucullate sepals

Derived Forms

• ˈcuculˌlately, adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of cucullate¹

First recorded in 1785–95; from Late Latin cucullātus “having a hood,” equivalent to Latin cucull(us) “a covering, hood” + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of cucullate¹

C18: from Late Latin cucullātus, from Latin cucullus hood, cap

Example Sentences

Loosely and widely pinnate; leaves round, entire, opaque; lower lobe subrounded, cucullate, close to the stem; underleaves subquadrate, toothed at the anterior angles; involucral leaves with 2 or 3 entire lobes; perianth tuberculate, retuse.—Rocks and trunks of trees; rather common.

From Project Gutenberg

Distortions of leaves are very common, and are sometimes teratological—i.e. due to no known cause—e.g. the pitcher-like or hood-like cucullate leaves of the Lime, Cabbage, Pelargonium, etc., and of fused pairs in Crassula.

From Project Gutenberg

Cucullate, -d, kū′kul-lāt, -ed, adj. hooded: shaped like a hood.

From Project Gutenberg

P. up to 1 cm. cucullate then exp. umbil. striate, orange yellow then pale; g. deeply decur. pale; s. 3-4 cm. very slender, weak, pale orange; sp. 4-5 � 2. var.

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