Wearing, or covered or furnished with, a hood.Specifically, in zoology, having on the head any formation of parts or arrangement of colors like or likened to a hood, as in mammals, birds, etc.; cucullate; capistrate.In botany, cucullate; having the apex or sides curved upward or arched over so as to resemble the point of a slipper or a hood, as the spathe of the Indian turnip or the lip of Cypripedium and Calypso. See cut under Cypripedium.