hooded gull

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hooded gull - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hooded \Hood"ed\, a.
     1. Covered with a hood.
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     2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
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     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.
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     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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