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[syn: hooded merganser, hooded sheldrake, Lophodytes cucullatus]
The 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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hooded sheldrake
    n 1: small North American duck with a high circular crest on the
         male's head [syn: hooded merganser, hooded sheldrake,
         Lophodytes cucullatus]