[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.
      1913 webster

   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] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hooded merganser
     n : small north american duck with a high circular crest on the
         male's head syn: hooded sheldrake, lophodytes
         cucullatus
see also:
hooded sheldrake lophodytes cucullatus 

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