capuchin

• a hooded cloak for women
• monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk´s cowl
• 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
• A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks
• 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
• Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella
• A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck

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