capuchin

capuchin is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 21 · 7 senses

Definitions

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

   Synonyms: ringtail

7. noun. a hooded cloak for women

Synonyms

ringtail

Common word forms

capuchins

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