Words Like CAPITULUM
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5 Alternative Words Similar to capitulum
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1 examples of capitulum
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a head of lettuce
10 definitions of capitulum
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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.
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A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.]
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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
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a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
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an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
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Botany See flower head.
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Biology A small knob or head-shaped part, such as a protuberance of a bone or the tip of an insect's antenna.
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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.
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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.
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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.