Found 2 hits - Term: dun crow, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hooded \hood"ed\, a.
1. covered with a hood.
1913 webster
2. furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
1913 webster
3. hood-shaped; esp. bot., rolled up like a cornet of
paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the indian turnip.
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4. 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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
hooded crow hoody dun crow royston crow hooded gull hooded merganser
merganser hooded seal cystophora cristata hoodcap hooded sheldrake
hooded snake cobra de capello asp haje hooded warbler
sylvania mitrata
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dun \dun\, a. as. dunn, of celtic origin; cf. w. dwn, ir.
gael. donn.
of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black;
of a dull brown color; swarthy.
1913 webster
summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. -- pierpont.
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chill and dun
falls on the moor the brief november day. --keble.
1913 webster
dun crow zool., the hooded crow; -- so called from its
color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy.
dun diver zool., the goosander or merganser.
1913 webster
see also:
dun crow hoody hoddy dun diver
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