capuchin > define

noun

• A hooded cloak for women.
• Monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl.
  • synonyms: ringtail, Cebus capucinus

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
• (n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
• (n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine. ), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.
• (n.) 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; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.