Cū'cul-late or Cu-cūl'late or Cū'cul-lāted or Cu-cūl'la-ted, a.

a. [L. Lat. cucullatus, from Lat. cucullus, a cap, hood, cowl.]

1. Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood.
2. Having the shape or resemblance of a hood; wide at the top and drawn to a point below, in the shape of a conical roll of paper; as, a cucullate leaf. Gray.
3. (Entom.) Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head.