Capuchin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A monk belonging to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, an independent order of Franciscans founded in Italy in 1525-1528 and dedicated to preaching and missionary work.
  • n. A hooded cloak worn by women.
  • n. Any of several long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cebus, native to Central and South America and often having a hoodlike tuft of hair on the head. Also called sapajou.
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  • n. A capuchin monkey.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
  • n. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
  • n.
  • n. A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.
  • n. Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the brown capucine or horned capucine.), Cabus albifrons (the cararara), and Cabus apella.
  • n. A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A member of a mendicant order of Franciscan monks, founded in Italy in 1528 by Matteo di Bassi, and named from the long pointed capouch or cowl which is the distinguishing mark of their dress.
  • n. [lowercase] A variety of pigeon with a range of inverted feathers on the back of the head, like the cap or cowl of a monk.
  • n. 3. [lowercase] A South American monkey, Cebus capucinus, having black on the head, like the hood or cowl of a Capuchin; hence, any sapajou or monkey of the genus Cebus. Also written capucine. See cut under Cebinæ.
  • n. 4. [lowercase] One of the baldheaded fruit-crows of South America, Gymnocephalus calvus.
  • n. A large loose hood worn by women in the eighteenth century.
  • n. A hooded cloak of the same period.
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  • n. a hooded cloak for women
  • n. monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cloak    new world monkey    platyrrhine    platyrrhinian   
    Cross Reference
    capuchin cross    cappuccino   
    Variant
    capucine monkey    weeper    sajou    sapajou    sai   
    Hyponym
    brown capucine    horned capucine    cararara   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crutched    colobus    Carmelite    fantail    rhesus   
     
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