capistrate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capistrātus, participial adjective from capistrō (“to halter”), from capistrum (“halter”) +‎ -ō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

capistrate (not comparable)

  1. (zoology, rare) Hooded, cowled.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

“capistrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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