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Cucullate
Cucullate Cu"cul*late (k?"k?l-l?t or k?-k?l"l?t), Cucullated Cu"cul*la`ted (-l?`t?d or -l?-t?d), a. [LL. cullatus, fr. L. cucullus a cap, hood. See Cowl a hood.] 1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. 3. (Zo["o]l.) (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.
Cucullated
Cucullate Cu"cul*late (k?"k?l-l?t or k?-k?l"l?t), Cucullated Cu"cul*la`ted (-l?`t?d or -l?-t?d), a. [LL. cullatus, fr. L. cucullus a cap, hood. See Cowl a hood.] 1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. --Sir T. Browne. 2. (Bot.) Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. 3. (Zo["o]l.) (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.
V cucullata
Violet Vi"o*let, n. [F. violette a violet (cf. violet violet-colored), dim. of OF. viole a violet, L. viola; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. Iodine.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor). Note: The cultivated sweet violet is Viola odorata of Europe. The common blue violet of the eastern United States is V. cucullata; the sand, or bird-foot, violet is V. pedata. 2. The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum. 3. In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color. --Mollett. 4. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lyc[ae]na, or Rusticus, and allied genera.

Meaning of Cuculla from wikipedia

- Cistercians are known as the White Monks, in reference to the color of the cuculla, the term for the white choir robe worn over their habits. "The Carthusian...
- ****insia cuculla is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Ecuador. "Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part II. Zool. Med...
- earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”). This, in turn, came from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. In...
- and sandals had become the norm. The Cistercians wore a close-****ing cuculla talare with a capuche worn over the tunic. The Caeremoniae of Bursfelde...
- source of Latin cucullus and Old French cogole (via the Latin feminine form cuculla; cf. modern cagoule). The Old Irish cochaIl ('monk's hood'), Cornish cugol...
- the monks consisted of a tunic of und**** wool, over which was worn the cuculla, or cowl, of the same material. A great deal of time was devoted to various...
- divinity named ****. Another theory suggests the name ****er derived from Latin cuculla meaning "hood, cowl" or cucurum, "quiver" (i.e. in the sense of a container;...
- Franks, about monks' clothing. establishes that what in Gaul was styled cuculla (cowl) was known to the C****inese monks as cappa. Moreover, the word occurs...
- summer garment. De Vogüé 6.916 thinks it is a modified version of the cuculla specially adapted for work. It clearly derives from the Latin sca****,...
- Francisco Caballero: 60  Francisco Casañas de Jesús María: 58  Francisco Cuculla: 274  Francisco de Ayeta Francisco de Paula Rivas: 61  Francisco de Salazar...