Cu·cul·late Cu·cul·la·ted a.
1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
2. Bot. Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
3. Zool. (a) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. (b) Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain birds, mammals, and reptiles.
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