Words Like CAPITULUM

We have put together a list of words that are similar to CAPITULUM.

5 Alternative Words Similar to capitulum

1 Head Noun      Synonym Words Like Head
2 Crown Noun      Synonym Words Like Crown
3 Top Noun      Synonym Words Like Top
4 Artiodactyla Noun      Variant Words Like Artiodactyla
5 Mealie Noun      Hyponym

1 examples of capitulum

1 a head of lettuce

10 definitions of capitulum

1 A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat.
2 A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
3 fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
4 a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
5 an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
6 Botany See flower head.
7 Biology A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.
8 In anatomy, the head of a bone; especially, the head of a rib, as distinguished from its shoulder or tuberculum. Also called capitellum. See cut under endoskeleton.
9 In Cirripedia, specifically, the valves of the shell collectively, inclosing more or less of the body of the animal, as distinguished from the peduncular part of the creature.
10 In botany, a close head of sessile flowers, as in the Compositæ; also, as used by some early botanists, the receptacle of various fungi; in mosses, a close, dense cluster of leaves. Also called capitule.
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