The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hooded \Hood"ed\, a.
Covered with a hood.
Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
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(Zo["o]l.)
Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.
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Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
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).
Usage examples of "hooded snake".
One of the hooded snake-men suddenly dashed down to the bench, ducked under the overly long spears and bit one of the tall Maags who were following Ox.
Garion nodded and then shuddered, remembering the hooded snake lying on the divan looking at itself in the mirror.
Tanis kept walking, and soon he and Lord Soth reached the bottom of the stairs leading up to the platform shaped like the head of the hooded snake.
He had clearly never seen an angel before, and none of them had ever seen what looked for all the world like an enormous hooded snake with wings.
The pommel was carved in the likeness of a hooded snake with yellow gemstones for its eyes.
An orange fireball boiled up through the trees, uncoiling like the head of some gigantic, hooded snake.
He sat before a microphone shaped like a hooded snake, and he brooded at his inquisitors.