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 Roys·ton crow  Zool. See Hooded crow, under Hooded.
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 Hood·ed, a.
 1. Covered with a hood.
 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
 3. Hood-shaped; esp. Bot., rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
 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.
 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).
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