Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, cowled or hooded; masked; having the front of the head covered, as if by a mask, with marked color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Hooded; cowled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology, rare
hooded ;cowled
Etymologies
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Latin capistratus, past participle of capistrare halter.
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