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capuchin

Capuchin is a 8 letter word which starts with the letter C and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(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 garment for women consisting of a cloak and hood resembling or supposed to resemble that of capuchin monks.
(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.
(n.) Other species of Cabus as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.) C. albifrons (the cararara) and C. apella.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
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